Hundreds of Chinese fossils from the dawn of animal evolution may change how scientists think of this critical period of ...

Around 540 million years ago, the ocean erupted with complex life: Creatures rapidly transformed from simple, soft-bodied, ...

Researchers found a long-lost ice age ecosystem in Bender's Cave, Texas ...

With a wetsuit and goggles, paleontologist John Moretti searches for fossils in the stream that flows through Bender's Cave ...

They found remains of animals that have never been uncovered in Central Texas. The fossils hint that the region was warm, ...

Modern Nautilus and Allonautilus species inhabit deeper waters than their extinct ancestors did over 500 million years ago.

Homo erectus may have deliberately selected rocks embedded with fossils and crystals to craft their hand axes.

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

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 ...

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

Some of the most ancient fossils collected to date were traced back to the Ediacaran period. This is the time interval ranging from around 635 to 541 million years ago, shortly before the time when ...

Fossils in China show that complex animals existed before the Cambrian explosion, changing our understanding of how life ...