Earth’s history is filled with incredible milestones, and the emergence of the first animals is one of the most captivating.

with the eventual appearance of the lineages of almost all animals living today. This stunning and unique evolutionary flowering is termed the "Cambrian explosion," taking the name of the ...

This daily feast-and-famine cycle in oxygen availability created an intense physiological challenge for early animals, forcing them to develop adaptations to handle fluctuations in nutrients. For ...

with the eventual appearance of the lineages of almost all animals living today. This stunning and unique evolutionary flowering is termed the "Cambrian explosion," taking the name of the ...

About 540 million years ago, our planet suddenly erupted with life, filling our oceans with a diversity of complex life. This is known as the Cambrian ...

The Cambrian Explosion saw an incredible diversity of life emerge, including many major animal groups alive today. Among them were the chordates, to which vertebrates (animals with backbones ...

Reconstruction of Anomalocaris, a formidable predator from the Cambrian Period This dramatic increase in animal diversity, 545 to 530 million years ago, is known as the Cambrian explosion. The ...

The control system that may have emerged at the Cambrian explosion is known as HIF-1α (hypoxia-inducible factor 1). In modern animals, this system helps cells detect and adapt to changes in ...

Hox genes and their relatives are involved in several developmental processes in diverse animals ... diversification of body plans in the Cambrian explosion. In the evolution of metazoans ...

What scientific question(s) does your research address and what motivates this work? Despite marking one of the most significant evolutionary changes in Earth history, the Cambrian ‘explosion’ of ...