Fossils from China reveal complex animals existed before the Cambrian explosion, reshaping the timeline of early animal ...

A remarkable assemblage of fossils from China is revealing that animal life diversified in Earth's primordial seas millions ...

Animal life began in aquatic environments more than 600 million years ago. Around 500 million years ago, during the Cambrian ...

The transition from water to land is a question that still intrigues scientists. Those ancient organisms would have needed to adapt to several new challenges to life out of water. So, how did they do ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

Sphen and Magic, two male Gentoo penguins, recently made headlines when they ‘adopted’ an egg. Gentoos are closely related to Adélie penguins, the species Levick first observed in 1911. After the two ...