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

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, April 2 (Reuters) - A remarkable assemblage of fossils from China is revealing that animal life ...

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

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

In 2000, researchers thought they found the oldest fossil octopus, which lived over 300 million years ago. But it may just be ...

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 ...

By giving some fossils a dental exam, we've learned more about how tusks first evolved. And humans aren't the only primate ...

A fossil assemblage from China’s Yunnan province suggests animal life diversified in the Ediacaran Period earlier than ...

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

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