A remarkable assemblage of fossils from China is revealing that animal life diversified in Earth's primordial seas millions of years earlier than ...

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

When the environment changes dramatically, animals from mollusks to crows can make big changes in their behavior that enable them to survive. For example, marmots and ground squirrels in California ...

A fossil bed in China containing animals up to 554 million years old suggests that we may have to reconsider the idea that ...

A sweeping genetic study of over 150 species reveals that life’s move from water to land was not a single story, but a series ...

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

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

Until now, there was a conflict in the field of paleontology. Genetic analysis of how fast traits mutated and evolved suggested that humans and starfish had their earliest common ancestor in the ...

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

A fossil assemblage from China’s Yunnan province suggests animal life diversified in the Ediacaran Period earlier than previously known. Researchers say the discovery sheds new light on the transition ...

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 ...