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

A remarkable fossil discovery in southwest China is rewriting the story of how complex animal life began, showing that many key animal groups appeared millions of years earlier than scientists once ...

Scientists have uncovered the earliest fossil evidence of annelids (ringed worms) in Cambrian microfossils dating back ...

Scientists Found What May Be Earth's First Mass Extinction and It Was More Catastrophic Than Anyone Realized ...

If you trace the animal family tree back through the fossil record, the trail usually goes cold about 539 million years ago.

More than 539 million years ago, soft, clarinet-shaped animals anchored themselves to the seafloor on disc-shaped bases, swaying alongside stalked animals resembling worms and baskets. These ...

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

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

This goblet-shaped fossil from the Jiangchuan Biota in China's Yunnan province is an early species from a group that includes jellyfish, sea anemones and corals. - Gaorong Li Goblet-shaped sea jelly ...

A newly discovered fossil site in southwest China has transformed our understanding of how complex animal life emerged on Earth, revealing that many key animal groups had already evolved before the ...

The discovery of a fossil "treasure trove" has pushed back the origins of animals at least four million years. The "exciting" find in China includes the remains of a creature that "looks like the sand ...