The discovery of a collection of about 700 fossils known as the Jiangchuan Biota gives scientists a better understanding of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A fascinating fossil discovery in remote South Australia sheds light on an important chapter in the history of life on Earth: the ...

How and why the Cambrian explosion occurred has been the subject of debate ever since fossils of this remarkable event were ...

A groundbreaking fossil discovery in remote South Australia sheds light on one of evolution’s greatest mysteries: the origins of Ecdysozoa, a superphylum of molting animals including insects, ...

KUNMING -- Chinese scientists have discovered well-preserved multicellular animal fossils in Ediacaran strata of eastern Yunnan, indicating that complex animal communities existed in oceans long ...

A fossil assemblage from Yunnan province in southwest China is reshaping scientific understanding of how animal life graduated from simple, soft-bodied forms to the complex body plans that dominate ...

Geology of the older precambrian rocks of the upper granite gorge of the Grand Canyon / R.S. Babcock, E.H. Brown, and M.D. Clark -- The younger precambrian rocks of the Grand Canyon / Trevor D. Ford ...

Everyone has a past. That includes the millions of species of insects, arachnids, and nematode worms that make up a major animal group called the Ecdysozoa. Until recently, details about this group’s ...

Tiny fossils that were once thought to be indications of the first animal life have been reinterpreted as coming from an organism that may have been the animals' close cousin.

Interpretation of microbial fossils with special reference to the Precambrian / St. Golubić and E.S. Barghoorn -- Evolving concepts on the nature and the ecological significance of stromatolites : a ...