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

Bartolomeo Cavina is a veterinarian physiotherapist who has worked with animals of all shapes and sizes — including lions ...

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

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 ...

A treasure trove of fossils from China shows that the Cambrian explosion may have been less explosive than scientists once ...

A newly discovered fossil site in southwest China has transformed our understanding of how complex animal life emerged on ...

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 ...

Does a male bird with a long and complex courtship dance have superior cognitive abilities? Simply put, is a talented dancer ...

The complete absence of these creatures in later strata suggests they might have vanished in a mass-extinction event that ...

Outside of humans, orangutans are the primate outlier when it comes to long childhoods, reaching adulthood at eight to 10 ...

Recent fossil discoveries in China provide crucial insights into the early evolution of complex animals, revealing a ...