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

A Cambrian fossil has been identified as the oldest known member of the chelicerates, a group that includes spiders and ...

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

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 ...

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

The peculiar Cambrian object known as Brooksella, studied for more than a century, may never have been a fossil at all. New research suggests it could simply be a very unusual rock formed by natural ...

Scientists have discovered an enigmatic dinosaur species that lived some 120 million years ago and whose fossil contained hundreds of stones in its throat, a finding that could shed more light on bird ...

Fossils from Qatar have revealed a small, newly identified sea cow species that lived in the Arabian Gulf more than 20 million years ago. The site contains the densest known collection of fossil sea ...

How Did These Strange, Ancient Organisms Turn into Such Remarkable Fossils? New Research in Geology reveals why the 570-million-year-old Ediacaran Biota were so exceptionally preserved. Boulder, Colo.

One of the weirdest animals that ever lived may have been a scavenger. A re-examination of fossils first described in the 1970s seems to show a swarm of Hallucigenia feeding on the corpse of a comb ...