Life's Big Bang - The Story of the Cambrian Explosion ~ with SHUHAI XIAO
Channel: Evolution Soup
Date: 2021-07-03

What ignited the famed Cambrian Explosion? The majority of today's animal phyla got their start in this strange yet exciting period of time over five hundred million years ago. What triggered this radiation of life, some with shells, others with skeletons? What were the first predators? And what came before this period?

DR SHUHAI XIAO is a paleobiologist and geobiologist who studies the interactions between the biosphere and its environments at critical transitions in Earth history, particularly during the Ediacaran-Cambrian transition. 

MARK from Evolution Soup chats with Shuhai about the Cambrian, why it may have produced so many new animal types, and the even more mysterious period of time before the Cambrian, the period known as the Ediacaran.

#cambrianexplosion #evolution #science


00:00 START
02:03 Shuhai's background
04:52 The Cambrian 'Explosion'
11:33 Cambrian animals
17:42 Why did it happen?
24:28 The Ediacaran period
33:43 Determining ages
36:33 Latest projects 



ANIMATION BY PHLESCH BUBBLE © ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM

Thumbnail art: Anomalocaris in the Cambrian Sea by Gaetan Lee.

Drone Footage by Kyle Papili



LINKS FOR SHUHAI XIAO:

SITE: https://sites.google.com/vt.edu/geobiology

TWITTER: @XiaoShuhai
https://twitter.com/xiaoshuhai

LINKEDIN: 
https://www.linkedin.com/in/shuhai-xiao-3439b915/

FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/shuhai.xiao

LAB: https://www.researchgate.net/lab/Shuhai-Xiao-Lab



VIRGINIA TECH:

SITE: https://vt.edu/

TWITTER: @virginia_tech https://twitter.com/virginia_tech

INSTA: @virginia.tech https://instagram.com/virginia.tech



SEE ALSO:

Burgess Shale: https://burgess-shale.rom.on.ca/

VIDEO:  Dr Xiao's talk at the museum’s First Animals series on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjyGTIwAZj0




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