Remarkably preserved fossils found in southern China offer a fascinating window into what life looked like at the end of the ...

In the red-brown siltstones of Yunnan province, southwest China, paleontologists have found something that was not supposed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New research finds chemical fossils from sponges in rocks over 541 million years old, suggesting animals emerged earlier than once ...

The discovery of a collection of about 700 fossils known as the Jiangchuan Biota gives scientists a better understanding of ...

The details of how animal life began are a bit murky. Most of the groups familiar today are present in the Cambrian, a period ...

Timeline: The Cambrian Explosion and Animal Diversity Let’s go back 541 million years. Earth was about to throw the most spectacular evolutionary party in history. For billions of years, life had been ...

A treasure trove of exceptionally preserved early animals from more than half a billion years ago has been discovered in the Grand Canyon, one of the natural world's most iconic sites. The rich fossil ...

Paleontologists have discovered remarkable fossils in the Grand Canyon that reveal fresh details about the emergence of complex life half a billion years ago. The newfound remains of fauna from the ...

Animals of the Cambrian period went through one of the greatest evolutionary surges in history, known as the Cambrian Explosion. Animals of the Cambrian period likely began as worms or worm-like ...

Opabinia: The Strangest Creature of the Cambrian Opabinia regalis is one of the most bizarre animals ever discovered. Living ...

A team of scientists digging up some of the Earth’s oldest rocks has uncovered new chemical evidence that Earth’s first animals were likely ancestors of the modern sea sponge. The discovery relies on ...

Collection of fossils includes Ediacaran, Cambrian species, suggesting a transition. If, as the Jiangchuan Biota suggest, the Ediacaran gently eased into the Cambrian, then why has there appeared to ...