One of the greatest mysteries of the history of life is the cambrian explosion .
寒武紀的大爆炸是生命史中最大的謎團之一。
During the cambrian explosion , major paradigm shifts took only tens of millions of years .
在寒武紀生命大爆發期間,主要模式轉化只用了數千萬年的時間。
The ediacaran fossil record thus stretches the origins of animals to well before the cambrian explosion .
埃迪卡拉化石的發現,將動物的形成時間從寒武紀又推早了不少。
During the cambrian period , 500 million years ago , worm-like creatures were evolving into fish-like creatures .
在5億年前的寒武紀,似蠕蟲生物逐漸演化成似魚生物。
Animals - including human beings - trace their origins back to the oceans of the cambrian period more than half a billion years ago when the first multicellular organisms that fed exclusively on onther living things appeared .