Around 540 million years ago, the ocean erupted with complex life: Creatures rapidly transformed from simple, soft-bodied, ...

Hundreds of Chinese fossils from the dawn of animal evolution may change how scientists think of this critical period of ...

Until now, there was a conflict in the field of paleontology. Genetic analysis of how fast traits mutated and evolved ...

A newly discovered trove of fossils in southwestern China is shifting the timeline of when complex animals evolved.

A remarkable assemblage of fossils from China is revealing that animal life diversified in Earth's primordial seas millions ...

Animal life is extraordinarily diverse and complex, having colonised almost all environments on Earth – from hostile ...

A fossil assemblage from China’s Yunnan province suggests animal life diversified in the Ediacaran Period earlier than ...

Learn how newly discovered Ediacaran fossils are pushing the origins of animals back millions of years before the Cambrian ...

A fossil bed in China containing animals up to 554 million years old suggests that we may have to reconsider the idea that ...