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

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

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

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 ...

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 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 ...