The Cambrian explosion is perhaps one of the most impactful events in evolutionary history, it gives way to present day animals in fossilized forms which we now use to understand a time period that was much more complex. The period occurred 535-525 million years ago, and was a time where the majority of animals were soft bodied and appeared to be grazers, suspension feeders as well as scavengers. The Cambrian explosion occurred and with it extinctions of many of the soft bodied animals. Those soft bodied animals that had survived, quickly adapted into predators due to their new developmental genes as well as their morphological innovations such as, new defense adaptations, sharp spines, and heavy body armor. With the extinction and adaptations
