In a hillside in Yunnan province, southwest China, paleontologists have pulled more than 700 fossils from rock that is ...

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

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

A newly analyzed fossil site in Yunnan, China, has revealed over 700 specimens dating back 554 million years, showing complex bilateral animals coexisted with Ediacaran life before the Cambrian ...

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 ...

It looked, at first, like the sort of fossil Rudy Lerosey-Aubril knew well. After a long day of teaching, the Harvard ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...