animal life
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These organisms lived only tens of millions of years before the Cambrian Explosion, a pivotal period that began about 540 million years ago and marked the rapid rise of complex and diverse animal life.
From Science Daily • Jan. 27, 2026
Teeming with plant and animal life, the oceans are responsible for creating half of the globe's oxygen supply and are vital to combatting climate change, conservationists say.
From Barron's • Jan. 17, 2026
For all its plant and animal life aboveground, the Amazon rainforest’s soils are surprisingly poor in nutrients necessary for growing food.
From Salon • Mar. 7, 2025
A graphic score for female vocalist and 20-member instrumental ensemble invites musical gestures for channeling the sonic wonderland of animal life and nature into mystical harmonic space.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 5, 2025
Berkner suggests that there may have been cycles of oxygen production and carbon dioxide consumption, depending on relative abundances of plant and animal life, with the ice ages representing periods of apnea.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
