explosion
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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
One hundred eight years later, no one who lived through the Halifax Explosion is left.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 17, 2025
During the Cambrian Explosion more than 500 million years ago, these weird worms — which lived inside long, cone-shaped tubes — were some of the most common predators on the seafloor.
From New York Times • Mar. 26, 2024
To be honest, one of the local papers was calling it "Explosion or implosion?" tonight.
From BBC • Mar. 4, 2024
After an hour, the Mind toiling with nothing but repeated Warnings & Desperate Strategies & Calculations of Escape—it resolves itself to distant Explosion & Danger.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
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