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

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

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 ...

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

KUNMING — Chinese scientists have discovered well-preserved multicellular animal fossils in Ediacaran strata of eastern Yunnan province, indicating that complex animal communities existed in oceans ...

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

The Jiangchuan Biota indicates that we may have misjudged the Cambrian “explosion” of complex life.

Scientists have uncovered the earliest fossil evidence of annelids (ringed worms) in Cambrian microfossils dating back approximately 535 million years ago. This discovery offers fresh insights into ...

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Scientists from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have uncovered the earliest fossil evidence of annelids (ringed worms) in Cambrian microfossils ...

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

An international research team led by Chinese scientists has discovered the oldest known body fossils of annelids, extending ...