Researchers studying ancient rocks from the late Ediacaran period uncovered a fossil evidence that complex animal groups, ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Most of these fossilized animals are ancestors of modern invertebrates, including modern starfish, but a few among them count as ancient ancestors of ...

Scientists revisiting mysterious 540-million-year-old microfossils from Brazil have overturned a major idea about early ...

Animal life is extraordinarily diverse and complex, having colonised almost all environments on Earth – from hostile hydrothermal vents in the deep sea to the skies across our continents. But all this ...

New research proposes the Brain-First Hypothesis: the evolution of the brain drove animal diversification during the Cambrian ...