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

A previously misidentified Triassic cynodont has been confirmed as a new species, revealing a surviving lineage of early ...

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

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

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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A painted reconstruction of a bluntnose six-gill shark (or cow shark) scavenging on a tiny extinct right whale carcass during the ...

Shark teeth found in 5-million-year-old whale skulls provide direct evidence of ancient feeding behavior and predator-prey ...

Researchers argue that a newly examined specimen found decades ago in Utah provides new clues to the ancestors of ...

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A major gap in South Korea's prehistoric record has been filled with the discovery of Onggwanoolithus aphaedoensis, the first ...

An international team of scientists from South Africa, Canada, France and the UK has uncovered fossil evidence of a tiny ecosystem that helped kick-start the recovery of Earth's oceans after a global ...

A broken tooth lodged deep in bone can outlast the animal that lost it. In two whale skulls from Belgium, those fragments have done exactly that, preserving a moment of violence from roughly five ...