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

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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

Scientists have discovered fossils in China that reveal a crucial transition from simple to complex life on Earth ...

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

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

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

All sorts of animals easily recognisable as groups alive today appeared in the fossil record, from echinoderms (starfish, sea ...