Cambrian Explosion

Scientific  

1. The rapid diversification of multicellular animal life that took place around the beginning of the Cambrian Period. It resulted in the appearance of almost all modern animal phyla.

2. See Note at Burgess Shale

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Example Sentences

Then came the Cambrian explosion, known as evolution's "big bang", roughly 540 million years ago.

From Barron's

Han said his team was also surprised that some of the animals in the quarry had also been found at Canada's Burgess Shale site, which dates from an early period of the Cambrian explosion.

From Barron's

"It's hard to overemphasize how dramatic of a change it is from the small and microbial life forms that dominate much of the Precambrian to the big step up in size and complexity," seen in the Ediacara Biota and Cambrian Explosion, says Tarhan.

From Science Daily

These organisms lived only tens of millions of years before the Cambrian Explosion, a pivotal period that began about 540 million years ago and marked the rapid rise of complex and diverse animal life.

From Science Daily

Jonas will guide the bank’s clients on what he’s calling the “Cambrian explosion of bots”—a time in the not-so-distant-future in which fully autonomous vehicles, drones, humanoids and industrial robots grow large enough in population to rival the human race.

From The Wall Street Journal