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

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

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, April 2 (Reuters) - A remarkable assemblage of fossils from China is revealing that animal life ...

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

The transition from water to land is a question that still intrigues scientists. Those ancient organisms would have needed to ...

The evolution of some of the earliest complex animals on our planet may have been spurred on by other, simpler early animals. These simple marine animals first evolved around 560 million years ago and ...

This article was originally featured on High Country News. Increasing frequent and intense fires are shaping how species change, according to a paper published last year in the journal Trends in ...

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

Increasing frequent and intense fires are shaping how species change, according to a paper published last year in the journal Trends in Ecology & Evolution. While previous research tended to focus on ...