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 ...

Until now, there was a conflict in the field of paleontology. Genetic analysis of how fast traits mutated and evolved ...

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

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

A fossil assemblage from China’s Yunnan province suggests animal life diversified in the Ediacaran Period earlier than ...

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

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

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

Ancient animal history is extremely difficult to reconstruct, for a number of reasons. Some of the earliest creatures in ...

A new study reveals how squid and cuttlefish began in the deep sea and survived Earth’s biggest extinction to thrive ...

Animals that adapt behaviorally may evolve physically more slowly, showing resilience rather than weakness in changing ...