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

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

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

A fossil bed in China containing animals up to 554 million years old suggests that we may have to reconsider the idea that life suddenly diversified during the Cambrian explosion ...

Learn how newly discovered Ediacaran fossils are pushing the origins of animals back millions of years before the Cambrian ...

Did Earth’s major diversification event really happen in one sudden explosion? Our fossil discovery suggests not.

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

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

Fossils from China's Yunnan Province are reshaping our understanding of early animal evolution, revealing a rich diversity of life forms that existed millions of years before the Cambrian Explosion.

Rudy Lerosey-Aubril A tiny claw in a 500-million-year-old fossil just rewrote the origin story of spiders. After a full da ...