Around 540 million years ago, the ocean erupted with complex life: Creatures rapidly transformed from simple, soft-bodied, ...
A newly discovered trove of fossils in southwestern China is shifting the timeline of when complex animals evolved.
All sorts of animals easily recognisable as groups alive today appeared in the fossil record, from echinoderms (starfish, sea ...
A fossil assemblage from Yunnan province in southwest China is reshaping scientific understanding of how animal life ...
A tranche of fossils from the end of the Ediacaran Period has shown up branches of the tree of life previously thought to ...
Until now, there was a conflict in the field of paleontology. Genetic analysis of how fast traits mutated and evolved ...
Fossils in China show that complex animals existed before the Cambrian explosion, changing our understanding of how life ...
The "exciting" find in China includes the remains of a creature that "looks like the sand worm from Dune." It has transformed ...
Hundreds of Chinese fossils from the dawn of animal evolution may change how scientists think of this critical period of ...
Learn how newly discovered Ediacaran fossils are pushing the origins of animals back millions of years before the Cambrian ...
Animal life is extraordinarily diverse and complex, having colonized almost all environments on Earth—from hostile ...