How to Use Cambrian in a Sentence

Cambrian

adjective
Definition of Cambriannext
  • Marc had been reading books about rocks from the pre-Cambrian age Canadian shield.
    — Ruby Cramer, Washington Post, 9 July 2022
  • With this find, the team found evidence that the body plan of modern tunicates was established not long after the Cambrian explosion.
    — Elizabeth Gamillo, Discover Magazine, 6 July 2023
  • But many of those Cambrian animals went extinct after that.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 May 2023
  • Meanwhile, Razib Khan likens content farms to the Pre-Cambrian period.
    — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 27 Feb. 2011
  • Bioluminescence emerged around the time of the Cambrian Explosion, the most intense burst of evolution on record.
    — Discover Magazine, 19 June 2024
  • Enlarge Jiri Svoboda Trilobites first appear early in the Cambrian and are one of the earliest examples of arthropods, the group that includes all insects.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Beneath, undulating green hills, sprawling hedgerows, a horizon broken only by the jagged tips of Wales’ Cambrian mountain range.
    — Jessica Rawnsley, WIRED, 18 Apr. 2024
  • Also in the fossil trove are tiny enigmatic holdovers from the preceding Cambrian explosion, a period that started about 540 million years ago, when a burst of diverse life-forms emerged.
    — Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American, 10 May 2023
  • The earlier Cambrian period witnessed the origins of animals but by the end of the Ordovician period, Earth was home to more varied and diverse ecosystems.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN, 1 May 2023
  • Researchers have found similarly stunning Cambrian fossil sites around the world.
    — Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American, 10 May 2023
  • Gastropods have existed since the Cambrian period, around 540 million years ago.
    — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 24 May 2024
  • For instance, the rise of mobile, muscular animals that could burrow through sediment serves as the basis for defining the Cambrian Period.
    — Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Apr. 2024
  • Paleontologists have been searching for Cambrian Period jellies for over a century, with some false starts along the way.
    — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Aug. 2023
  • During the Cambrian period, an explosion of diversity occurred in the world’s oceans while the surrounding land remained barren of plant and animal life.
    — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 9 Aug. 2023
  • The fossils demonstrate that the Cambrian food chain was much more complex than paleontologists previously believed, and the large swimming arthropods of the time like Anomalocaris were not the only predators.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 2 Aug. 2023
  • They have been used on fossil data, for instance, to reveal the timing of the Cambrian explosion, when diverse multicellular life appeared nearly 550 million years ago.
    — Jeffrey P. Townsend, Scientific American, 1 Apr. 2018
  • Magnesium’s online success also has been spurred in part by a Cambrian explosion of products and formulations, each adapted for a different niche in the wellness ecosystem.
    — Adam Markovitz, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2024
  • Vertebrates evolved after, during the Cambrian explosion about 540 million years ago.
    — Jamie Dickman, Popular Science, 17 Apr. 2023
  • Computational fluid dynamics was then used to put the 3D model of the predator into a virtual ocean current to predict what body position A. canadensis likely would have used while swimming in Cambrian seas.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 5 July 2023
  • The find led artists to draw modern-looking jellyfish trailing tentacles in their theoretical depictions of Cambrian life.
    — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Tully has been compared to gastropods (slugs and snails), conodonts (an extinct group of jawless vertebrates), polychaetes (segmented marine worms), nemerteans (ribbon worms), and nectocarids (a squid-like Cambrian organism) in the ensuing decades.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 25 Apr. 2023
  • The Cambrian explosion was a period in evolutionary history in which many new organisms appeared.
    — Isabelle Bousquette, WSJ, 26 Oct. 2023
  • However, the digital age has brought about a Cambrian explosion of data availability, paired with advancements in analytics and AI capabilities, marking a new era in venture capital.
    — Douglas B. Laney, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2024
  • From the fossils, paleontologists are discovering that certain modern creatures likely arose earlier than expected, and various Cambrian species may have evaded extinction for much longer than thought.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 May 2023
  • The evolution of multicellularity led to the Cambrian explosion, a period more than 500 million years ago when large multicellular animals appeared in great diversity.
    — Eliot Bush, Scientific American, 7 Nov. 2023
  • One example is a fossil specimen of the Cambrian arthropod Mollisonia, which showed brain organization comparable with that of living spiders, scorpions and horseshoe crabs, Mussini said.
    — Mindy Weisberger, CNN, 24 June 2024

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