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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

Newly uncovered fossils in southwestern China are forcing scientists to rethink when Earth first shifted from simple, flat, ...

The discovery of a collection of about 700 fossils known as the Jiangchuan Biota gives scientists a better understanding of ...