KUNMING -- Chinese scientists have discovered well-preserved multicellular animal fossils in Ediacaran strata of eastern Yunnan, indicating that complex animal communities existed in oceans long ...

If you trace the animal family tree back through the fossil record, the trail usually goes cold about 539 million years ago. Before this boundary—the start of the famous Cambrian explosion—multicelled ...

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

The first thing a lot of people notice about Cambrian Park Plaza on the west side of San José is the sign. It’s big; it’s ...

The assemblage suggests that the ancestors of some of today's animal groups may have arisen before the famed Cambrian ...

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 that ...

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 ...

Newly discovered fossils have given scientists their first real glimpse of when Earth made a crucial transition from plants ...

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

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

Among the fossil finds were bilateral worm-like animals that may have anchored themselves to the seafloor, early comb jellies ...

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