Oxygen brought Earth's earliest carnivores to life

Thursday, August 1, 2013 - 19:00 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Without oxygen, there would be no carnivores. Without carnivores, there would be no Cambrian explosion, the stunning evolutionary burst of diversity in species and body forms that began 540 million years ago.

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