Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This goblet-shaped fossil from the Jiangchuan Biota in China's Yunnan province is an early species from a group that includes ...

Goblet-shaped sea jelly relatives with miniature “arms.” A plump, legless creature resembling a sausage. Long, wormlike animals tipped with flat “holdfast” discs for anchoring to the seafloor.

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 ...

A groundbreaking discovery of fossils has provided scientists with an unprecedented insight into a pivotal moment in Earth's history: the transition from rudimentary plant and animal life to the ...

The details of how animal life began are a bit murky. Most of the groups familiar today are present in the Cambrian, a period when they rapidly diversified, with familiar features evolving alongside ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. With a wetsuit and goggles, paleontologist John Moretti searches for fossils in the stream that flows through Bender's Cave in ...

Unprecedented remnants from the Ice Age have been recovered from a water cave in Comal County. While snorkeling for fossils in Bender’s Cave, which is located on private land, University of Texas ...

Some of the most ancient fossils collected to date were traced back to the Ediacaran period. This is the time interval ranging from around 635 to 541 million years ago, shortly before the time when ...

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In 2000, researchers described an odd fossil found not far from Chicago. It had a round body, finlike structures on one end and a tangle of arms. The fossil was classified as an octopus and named ...

A huge and beautifully preserved suite of fossils discovered in China has cast doubt on the idea that complex life flourished dramatically during a rapid burst of evolution known as the Cambrian ...