Around 540 million years ago, the ocean erupted with complex life: Creatures rapidly transformed from simple, soft-bodied, ...

Newfound fossils from China suggest that complex animals were around millions of years earlier than thought, among them ...

Hundreds of Chinese fossils from the dawn of animal evolution may change how scientists think of this critical period of ...

A fossil bed in China containing animals up to 554 million years old suggests that we may have to reconsider the idea that ...

A newly discovered fossil site in southwest China has transformed our understanding of how complex animal life emerged on ...

Until now, there was a conflict in the field of paleontology. Genetic analysis of how fast traits mutated and evolved ...

Our planet is several billion years old—a number so vast it’s almost impossible to truly comprehend. In all that time, ...

The complete absence of these creatures in later strata suggests they might have vanished in a mass-extinction event that ...

They found remains of animals that have never been uncovered in Central Texas. The fossils hint that the region was warm, ...

A team of international researchers unearthed intricate creatures previously thought to have evolved in a later epoch.

Fossils in China show that complex animals existed before the Cambrian explosion, changing our understanding of how life ...

A Texas paleontologist has made a discovery that could re-write what scientists know about prehistoric life in the state. In ...