The discovery of a collection of about 700 fossils known as the Jiangchuan Biota gives scientists a better understanding of ...

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

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 ...

But the very heart of our planet remains a mystery. For many years, scientists believed that iron and nickel made up Earth’s ...

Elaborate life could be much older on Earth than previously thought. A team of researchers has uncovered a fossil site in ...

Let’s go back 541 million years. Earth was about to throw the most spectacular evolutionary party in history. For billions of years, life had been playing it safe with single-celled minimalism. Then ...

Just over half a billion years ago, Earth was rocked by a global mass extinction event, a dramatic interruption of the Cambrian explosion of life on Earth. What happened next, in the direct aftermath ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Newly discovered fossils have given scientists their first real glimpse of when Earth made a crucial transition from plants and unrecognizably simple animals to the complex creatures ...

The Cambrian explosion was an extraordinary phenomenon in the evolution of life on the planet that led to the emergence of many animal phyla and the diversification of species. During this period, ...

Nilpena Ediacara National Park in South Australia is well known for its collection of fossils from the Ediacaran period—a geologic timespan that predates the Cambrian explosion. An international team ...