A remarkable assemblage of fossils from China is revealing that animal life diversified in Earth’s primordial seas millions of years earlier than previously known, with an array of forms including ...

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

A 550-million-year-old sea sponge fossil discovered in China is helping scientists resolve a 160-million-year gap in the ...

Animal life began in aquatic environments more than 600 million years ago. Around 500 million years ago, during the Cambrian ...

How and why the Cambrian explosion occurred has been the subject of debate ever since fossils of this remarkable event were first discovered. The Cambrian Period, 539 million to 485 million years ago, ...

The most striking finds were fossils thought to be the oldest known deuterostomes — the broad biological group that includes ...

When the environment changes dramatically, animals from mollusks to crows can make big changes in their behavior that enable ...

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

A fossil assemblage from China’s Yunnan province suggests animal life diversified in the Ediacaran Period earlier than ...

The human ability to cook may seem ordinary, but it marks one of the most important evolutionary turning points in our ...

Sphen and Magic, two male Gentoo penguins, recently made headlines when they ‘adopted’ an egg. Gentoos are closely related to Adélie penguins, the species Levick first observed in 1911. After the two ...

Scientists are now using computer models to understand how animal groups form and interact. These generative network models ...