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 ...
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 ...
Chelicerates are an ecologically important and successful evolutionary lineage that can trace the origins of each of its constituent groups to between 440 million and 470 million years ago in the ...
The assemblage suggests that the ancestors of some of today's animal groups may have arisen before the famed Cambrian explosion ...
Reconstruction of Jiangchuan biota (~554-539 million years ago). Credit: Xiaodong Wang. A newly discovered fossil site in southwest China has transformed our understanding of how complex animal life ...
Animal life is extraordinarily diverse and complex, having colonised almost all environments on Earth – from hostile hydrothermal vents in the deep sea to the skies across our continents. But all this ...
The early explosion of complex life may have happened earlier than we thought. The discovery of a new fossil site in China has revealed exceptionally well-preserved specimens from the Ediacaran Period ...
Gaorong Li and colleagues have uncovered a new fossil assemblage in the Jiangchuan Biota in Yunnan, Southwest China that fills a critical gap in our knowledge of the transition between the strange, ...
Animal life is extraordinarily diverse and complex, having colonised almost all environments on Earth – from hostile hydrothermal vents in the deep sea to the skies across our continents. But all this ...
It had been a long day of teaching for Rudy Lerosey-Aubril. As a reward, he returned to cleaning an intriguing Cambrian arthropod fossil he had recently received for review. At first, the specimen ...
Around 540 million years ago, the ocean erupted with complex life: Creatures rapidly transformed from simple, soft-bodied, ocean-floor-dwelling animals into bodies we might recognize today—animals ...
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