A newly discovered trove of fossils in southwestern China is shifting the timeline of when complex animals evolved.

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

Animal life is extraordinarily diverse and complex, having colonized almost all environments on Earth—from hostile ...

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

The complete absence of these creatures in later strata suggests they might have vanished in a mass-extinction event that ...

A newly discovered fossil site in southwest China has transformed our understanding of how complex animal life emerged on ...

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

Rudy Lerosey-Aubril A tiny claw in a 500-million-year-old fossil just rewrote the origin story of spiders. After a full da ...

It had been a long day of teaching for Rudy Lerosey-Aubril. As a reward, he returned to cleaning an intriguing Cambrian ...

A breakthrough discovery in Utah has revealed a 500-million-year-old chelicera fossil that is the oldest known spider and ...

Fossils in China show that complex animals existed before the Cambrian explosion, changing our understanding of how life ...

What started as routine fossil cleaning turned into a major scientific surprise when researchers uncovered a tiny claw in a ...