The Cambrian sea was a very strange and alien place. Evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould described the animals that lived there in his book Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of ...
with a warming climate and rising sea levels flooding low-lying landmasses to create shallow, marine habitats ideal for spawning new life-forms. Nevertheless, the scale of the Cambrian Explosion ...
20 Million Years After The Cambrian Explosion, A Poisonous Gas Wave Wiped Out Nearly Half Of All Sea Life On Earth, According To Recent Research Story by Emily Chan • 11mo ...
The archaic sponge reef-dwellers of the Cambrian gave way to bryozoans—tiny, group-living animals that built coral-like structures. Ordovician reefs were also home to large sea lilies ...