In a hillside in Yunnan province, southwest China, paleontologists have pulled more than 700 fossils from rock that is ...

A reconstruction of the Jiangchuan biota, an assemblage of early animals represented by fossils from a newly discovered fossil site in China?s Yunnan Province dating to about 554 to 539 million years ...

A long-neglected fossil seems to show the evolutionary leap that let the ancestors of today’s many-legged arthropods crawl ...

Fossils in China reveal early life that predates animals and show that ancient ecosystems were more complex than previously ...

Jan 28 (Reuters) - Scientists have unearthed in southern China fossils of a multitude of marine creatures dating to more than a half billion years ago, showing a deep-water ecosystem thriving in the ...

CHINA — Goblet-shaped sea jelly relatives with miniature "arms." A plump, legless creature resembling a sausage. Long, wormlike animals tipped with flat "holdfast" discs for anchoring to the seafloor.

Scientists in China have uncovered over 700 fossils from the Jiangchuan Biota, dating back 554 million years, that show complex animals existed millions of years before the Cambrian explosion. The ...

A fossil snake discovered in India may have reached nearly 50 feet long, offering new clues about giant predators in ancient ...

The details of how animal life began are a bit murky. Most of the groups familiar today are present in the Cambrian, a period ...

Learn how fossil evidence reveals the repeatable way early humans accessed, processed, and shared meat.