The assemblage suggests that the ancestors of some of today's animal groups may have arisen before the famed Cambrian ...

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

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

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

Scientists have discovered fossils in China that reveal a crucial transition from simple to complex life on Earth ...

A stunning new fossil find from the Grand Canyon fills in some blanks from a time when evolution began experimenting with weird new forms. Frustratingly, fossils from later in the Cambrian period are ...

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

Learn how a 300-million-year-old fossil once thought to be the oldest octopus was reidentified after hidden teeth were ...

Research findings are available online in the journal Nature. The original story “ 289-million-year-old mummified reptile ...

To solve this puzzle, Thomas Clements, a paleontologist at the University of Leicester, and his colleagues put this supposed ...

Shaw Badenhorst works for the University of the Witwatersrand. He receives funding from GENUS, the National Research Foundation and the Palaeontological Scientific Trust. South Africa has one of the ...

A stunning new fossil find from the Grand Canyon fills in some blanks from a time when evolution began experimenting with weird new forms. About half a billion years ago, life on Earth really started ...