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 ...

Newly discovered fossils have given scientists their first real glimpse of when Earth made a crucial transition from plants ...

Fossils from China reveal complex animals existed before the Cambrian explosion, reshaping the timeline of early animal ...

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 ...

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

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 that ...

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

A fossil bed in China containing animals up to 554 million years old suggests that we may have to reconsider the idea that ...

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

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

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

A fossil assemblage from China’s Yunnan province suggests animal life diversified in the Ediacaran Period earlier than ...