A collaborative study by researchers from the University of Oxford’s Museum of Natural History and Oxford’s Department of ...

For decades, scientists have wondered what triggered the sudden "explosion" of complex animal life on Earth. This new ...

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 ...

Explore the incredible discovery of the Burgess Shale by Charles Walcott in 1909, revealing ancient soft-bodied life forms ...

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