A remarkable fossil discovery in southwest China is rewriting the story of how complex animal life began, showing that many key animal groups appeared millions of years earlier than scientists once ...

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

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

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

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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Revisiting museum collections helps identify new species without conducting new expeditions. While the average person may believe ...

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