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(biology) The Cambrian explosion (the rapid appearance, around 541 million years ago, of most major animal phyla).

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(biology) The Cambrian explosion (the rapid appearance, around 541 million years ago, of most major animal phyla).

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カンブリア爆発（約5.41億年前に主要な動物門が急速に出現した現象）

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科学者たちは、約5億4100万年前にほとんどの主要な動物門が急速に出現した現象をカンブリア爆発と呼ぶことがあり、比較的短期間に多くの動物の体制が現れたためです。

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(biology) The Cambrian explosion (the rapid appearance, around 541 million years ago, of most major animal phyla).

Brocks said the new study suggested the Ediacaran biota “already contained some of the creatures that gave rise to the [Cambrian] explosion, to the rise of modern animals”. The Cambrian explosion, also called the biological big bang, was a period about 538.8m years ago when almost all major animal groups started to appear in the fossil record.

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