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

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

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 ...

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This period, known as the Ediacaran Period, lasted from about 630 to 540 million years ago. This era saw the first emergence of complex multicellular life, while continents scattered into ...

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

A paleontological site discovered in the southwestern Chinese province of Yunnan has yielded more than 700 fossil specimens that force a rewriting of the opening chapters in the history of complex ...

CHINA — 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.

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

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 ...