For decades, scientists have sought to explain the so-called "Cambrian Explosion," a pivotal period over 500 million years ...

Buried in the rust-colored sedimentary rock of Yunnan province in southwest China, more than 700 fossil specimens have been ...

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 ...

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

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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 ...

Over half a billion years ago, during the Cambrian geological period, life on Earth started to get a lot more interesting. Thanks to the rise in free oxygen generated mostly by photosynthesizing algae ...

When did animals originate? Evolutionary theorist Charles Darwin may have speculated about the forms that early animals took, but our research published in the journal Palaeontology answers the animal ...