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

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

A tranche of fossils from the end of the Ediacaran Period has shown up branches of the tree of life previously thought to ...

All sorts of animals easily recognisable as groups alive today appeared in the fossil record, from echinoderms (starfish, sea ...

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 ...

Newfound fossils from China suggest that complex animals were around millions of years earlier than thought, among them ...

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

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

Fossils in China show that complex animals existed before the Cambrian explosion, changing our understanding of how life ...

The complete absence of these creatures in later strata suggests they might have vanished in a mass-extinction event that ...

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