Around 540 million years ago, the ocean erupted with complex life: Creatures rapidly transformed from simple, soft-bodied, ...

The most striking finds were fossils thought to be the oldest known deuterostomes — the broad biological group that includes ...

A newly discovered trove of fossils in southwestern China is shifting the timeline of when complex animals evolved.

Did Earth’s major diversification event really happen in one sudden explosion? Our fossil discovery suggests not.

A tranche of fossils from the end of the Ediacaran Period has shown up branches of the tree of life previously thought to ...

The discovery of a new fossil site in China has revealed exceptionally well-preserved specimens from the Ediacaran Period.

A fossil assemblage from Yunnan province in southwest China is reshaping scientific understanding of how animal life ...

Hundreds of Chinese fossils from the dawn of animal evolution may change how scientists think of this critical period of ...

Fossils in China show that complex animals existed before the Cambrian explosion, changing our understanding of how life ...