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

Learn how newly discovered Ediacaran fossils are pushing the origins of animals back millions of years before the Cambrian ...

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

A fossil bed in China containing animals up to 554 million years old suggests that we may have to reconsider the idea that life suddenly diversified during the Cambrian explosion ...

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

Did Earth’s major diversification event really happen in one sudden explosion? Our fossil discovery suggests not.

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

A team of paleontologists from the University of Texas at Austin spent nearly two years snorkeling and crawling through a water-filled cave on private land in Comal County, Texas, collecting fossils ...

Deep inside a cave, scientists uncovered fossils from 16 species, including a newfound kākāpō ancestor that may have been ...

A paleontologist from The University of Texas at Austin has discovered the fossilized remains of Ice Age animals that have never been found in Central ...

Researchers analyze the ratios of calcium isotopes in bones and fossils to learn more about what dinosaurs once ate. Credit: ...