On the shores of the west coast of Australia lies a window to our past: the stromatolites and microbial mats of Gathaagudu ...

Scientists have discovered a hidden partnership between ancient microbes that may explain how complex life first evolved on ...

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

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

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

Life’s leap from single-celled to multicellular organisms marks a pivotal moment in evolutionary history. This transformation laid the foundation for the complex life forms we see today. By studying ...

At first sight, stromatolites may seem unremarkable. The stromatolite formations found in Shark Bay, Western Australia, do ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Asgard microbes were found in shallow coastal sediments off the coast of Uruguay. - Monika Naranjo-Shepard/Schmidt Ocean Institute ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

(CNN) — Scientists are one step closer to understanding the origins of complex life on Earth after shedding new light on a mystery about our microbial ancestors. The key, they suspect, may lie in how ...