How to Use Cambrian in a Sentence

Cambrian

adjective
  • Marc had been reading books about rocks from the pre-Cambrian age Canadian shield.
    — Ruby Cramer, Washington Post, 2022-07-09
  • This was just before or at the start of the Cambrian explosion, when a huge number of new, more complex species arose.
    — Sam Jones, New York Times, 2024-04-23
  • But many of those Cambrian animals went extinct after that.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 2023-05-03
  • This could have occurred well before the Cambrian Explosion when most animal life began to form.
    — Devika Rao, theweek, 2024-08-08
  • 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, 2023-07-06
  • This explains the confusion with these early Cambrian animals.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 2025-05-21
  • Beneath, undulating green hills, sprawling hedgerows, a horizon broken only by the jagged tips of Wales’ Cambrian mountain range.
    — Jessica Rawnsley, WIRED, 2024-04-18
  • During the era of the Cambrian Explosion, some animals evolved to be able to create their own exoskeleton, a process known as sclerotization.
    — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 2024-06-26
  • But that Cambrian explosion, when the animals start to figure out all these evolutionary innovations, that’s later, right?
    — Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 2025-03-20
  • The Cambrian explosion was a period in evolutionary history in which many new organisms appeared.
    — Isabelle Bousquette, WSJ, 2023-10-26
  • Trustee area 6 encompasses part of Campbell and San Jose’s Cambrian neighborhood.
    — Anne Gelhaus, The Mercury News, 2024-11-18
  • 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, 2024-03-06
  • 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, 2023-05-10
  • Experts believe the micro-animal’s earliest ancestors can be traced as far back as 500 million years ago to the Cambrian Period.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 2024-08-14
  • The internet has caused a Cambrian explosion of creative expression by allowing artists to execute and distribute their visions with unprecedented ease.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 2025-05-05
  • 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, 2023-05-01
  • 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, 2023-09-27
  • Other mysteries include how biological cells first evolved, and what caused the dramatic onset of complex life during the Cambrian explosion 540 million years ago.
    — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 2025-02-21
  • 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, 2024-02-22
  • The Past The oldest relative of living animals is a jellyfish The 557-million-year-old specimen challenges the theory that animal body plans were laid out in the Cambrian explosion.
    — Big Think, 2024-06-24
  • By 540 million years ago, the Cambrian explosion was underway — a rapid diversification of life that saw the emergence of complex multicellular organisms, predatory behavior and the foundations of modern ecosystems.
    — Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 2025-03-30

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