Discoveries of molecules in space that suggest extraterrestrial life are exciting, but they need to be taken with a grain of ...

Newly uncovered fossils in southwestern China are forcing scientists to rethink when Earth first shifted from simple, flat, ...

A newly discovered fossil site in southwest China, the Jiangchuan Biota, contains about 700 exceptionally preserved specimens ...

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

A tiny claw, barely visible, has just upset everything we know about the origin of spiders. While preparing a fossil half a ...

Oxford scientists’ fossil discovery in China shows complex animals, including early human relatives, evolved at least four ...

A remarkable assemblage of fossils from China is revealing that animal life diversified in Earth’s primordial seas millions of years earlier than previously known, with an array of forms including ...

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

Researchers have discovered that complex animals appear in fossils dating to before the Cambrian explosion, a period about 538 million years ago when most major animal groups first show up in the ...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Forty-five years ago, a massive grain elevator explosion along the Corpus Christi Ship Channel killed nine people and injured more than 30 in one of South Texas’ deadliest ...