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, 9 July 2022
• 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, 23 Apr. 2024
• Researchers have found similarly stunning Cambrian fossil sites around the world.
  — Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American, 10 May 2023
• This could have occurred well before the Cambrian Explosion when most animal life began to form.
  — Devika Rao, theweek, 8 Aug. 2024
• His work links these dramatic climate shifts to the Cambrian explosion of life around 520 million years ago.
  — David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 May 2025
• 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
• This explains the confusion with these early Cambrian animals.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 21 May 2025
• Meanwhile, Razib Khan likens content farms to the Pre-Cambrian period.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 27 Feb. 2011
• Gastropods have existed since the Cambrian period, around 540 million years ago.
  — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 24 May 2024
• 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
• Bioluminescence emerged around the time of the Cambrian Explosion, the most intense burst of evolution on record.
  — Discover Magazine, 19 June 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
• Firms are ramping up resources and expertise to not just meet client demand in the field, but to harness the next Cambrian iteration of the technology and improve their own bottom line.
  — Liane Jackson, Forbes.com, 25 June 2025
• 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, 26 June 2024
• But that Cambrian explosion, when the animals start to figure out all these evolutionary innovations, that’s later, right?
  — Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 20 Mar. 2025
• Vertebrates evolved after, during the Cambrian explosion about 540 million years ago.
  — Jamie Dickman, Popular Science, 17 Apr. 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
• The Cambrian explosion was a period in evolutionary history in which many new organisms appeared.
  — Isabelle Bousquette, WSJ, 26 Oct. 2023
• Trustee area 6 encompasses part of Campbell and San Jose’s Cambrian neighborhood.
  — Anne Gelhaus, The Mercury News, 18 Nov. 2024
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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, 14 Aug. 2024
• 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, 5 May 2025
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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, 21 Feb. 2025
• 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