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

Learn how newly discovered Ediacaran fossils are pushing the origins of animals back millions of years before the Cambrian ...

Newfound fossils from China suggest that complex animals were around millions of years earlier than thought, among them ...

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

A treasure trove of fossils from China shows that the Cambrian explosion may have been less explosive than scientists once ...

A remarkable fossil discovery in southwest China is rewriting the story of how complex animal life began, showing that many key animal groups appeared millions of years earlier than scientists once ...

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

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

All sorts of animals easily recognisable as groups alive today appeared in the fossil record, from echinoderms (starfish, sea ...

Until now, there was a conflict in the field of paleontology. Genetic analysis of how fast traits mutated and evolved ...

Scientists have discovered fossils showing that complex animals existed millions of years before the Cambrian explosion, reshaping the timeline of life on Earth. The finds reveal a strange, diverse ...

Animal life is extraordinarily diverse and complex, having colonized almost all environments on Earth—from hostile ...