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World Service,07 Dec 2000,24 mins

Life story - the Cambrian period

Discovery

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Life in the Cambrian period, 500 million years ago. A time when early multi-cellular forms of life lived on the sea floor and some had even made it to live on the land. Fossils help us to explain exactly how these creatures lived.

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