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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

A team of international researchers unearthed intricate creatures previously thought to have evolved in a later epoch.

The timeline of terrestrial evolution holds surprises. While scientists thought complex life required oxygen, a recent discovery shows it began forming in oceans deprived of this element, nearly a ...

The discovery of a new fossil site in China has revealed exceptionally well-preserved specimens from the Ediacaran Period.

Complex life began to develop earlier, and over a longer span of time, than previously believed, a new study has revealed. The research sheds new light on the conditions needed for early organisms to ...

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A biochemist, building on the pillars of evolutionary theory and drawing on cutting-edge research into the link between energy and genes, argues that the evolution of multicellular life was the result ...