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

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

Our planet is several billion years old—a number so vast it’s almost impossible to truly comprehend. In all that time, ...

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

A newly discovered fossil site in southwest China has transformed our understanding of how complex animal life emerged on ...

Researchers argue that a newly examined specimen found decades ago in Utah provides new clues to the ancestors of ...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, April 2 (Reuters) - A remarkable assemblage of fossils from China is revealing that animal life ...

From mammoths to giant tortoises, a Texas cave discovery is giving scientists a new look at life during the Ice Age.

The groundwater flowing through the subterranean cave systems of central Texas are vital for both farming and daily life.

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

Thousands of years ago in a cave on Hispaniola, an unusual chain of events left behind a rare scientific treasure: bees ...