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 ...

Rare fossil footprints of a lizard dating back 160–170 million years have been discovered in Morocco, marking only the third ...

Nigeria stands to lose a lucrative opportunity in geotourism and economic diversification, a leading Cameroonian geoscientist has warned, blaming years of ...

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

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 ...

KUNMING, April 15 (Xinhua) -- Chinese scientists have discovered well-preserved multicellular animal fossils in Ediacaran strata of eastern Yunnan, indicating that complex animal communities existed ...

If you trace the animal family tree back through the fossil record, the trail usually goes cold about 539 million years ago. Before this boundary—the start of the famous Cambrian explosion—multicelled ...

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 ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Newly discovered fossils have given scientists their first real glimpse of when Earth made a crucial transition from plants and unrecognizably simple animals to the complex creatures ...

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 ...