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

How and why the Cambrian explosion occurred has been the subject of debate ever since fossils of this remarkable event were ...

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

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

If you trace the animal family tree back through the fossil record, the trail usually goes cold about 539 million years ago.

A tranche of fossils from the end of the Ediacaran Period has shown up branches of the tree of life previously thought to have appeared millions of years later in the Cambrian. The discovery fills a ...

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 ...

Chinese scientists have discovered well-preserved multicellular animal fossils in Ediacaran strata of eastern Yunnan, indicating that complex animal communities existed in oceans long before the ...

More than 539 million years ago, soft, clarinet-shaped animals anchored themselves to the seafloor on disc-shaped bases, swaying alongside stalked animals resembling worms and baskets. These ...

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

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

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