Animals of the Cambrian period went through one of the greatest evolutionary surges in history, known as the Cambrian Explosion. Animals of the Cambrian period likely began as worms or worm-like ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

The "exciting" find in China includes the remains of a creature that "looks like the sand worm from Dune." It has transformed ...

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

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

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

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 ...