Fossils from China reveal complex animals existed before the Cambrian explosion, reshaping the timeline of early animal ...

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

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

Animal life is extraordinarily diverse and complex, having colonized almost all environments on Earth—from hostile ...

A remarkable fossil discovery in southwest China is rewriting the story of how complex animal life began, showing that many key animal groups appeared millions of years earlier than scientists once ...

A remarkable assemblage of fossils from China is revealing that animal life diversified in Earth's primordial seas millions ...

Newly discovered fossils have given scientists their first real glimpse of when Earth made a crucial transition from plants and unrecognizably simple animals to the complex creatures that ...

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

Animal life is extraordinarily diverse and complex, having colonised almost all environments on Earth – from hostile ...

The most striking finds were fossils thought to be the oldest known deuterostomes — the broad biological group that includes ...

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

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