In a hillside in Yunnan province, southwest China, paleontologists have pulled more than 700 fossils from rock that is ...

Remarkably preserved fossils found in southern China offer a fascinating window into what life looked like at the end of the ...

In the red-brown siltstones of Yunnan province, southwest China, paleontologists have found something that was not supposed ...

(CNN) — Goblet-shaped sea jelly relatives with miniature “arms.” A plump, legless creature resembling a sausage. Long, wormlike animals tipped with flat “holdfast” discs for anchoring to the seafloor.

The details of how animal life began are a bit murky. Most of the groups familiar today are present in the Cambrian, a period ...

KUNMING — Chinese scientists have discovered well-preserved multicellular animal fossils in Ediacaran strata of eastern Yunnan province, indicating that complex animal communities existed in oceans ...

Paleontologists have discovered remarkable fossils in the Grand Canyon that reveal fresh details about the emergence of complex life half a billion years ago. The newfound remains of fauna from the ...

These Cambrian groups were the first social networks, showing that being connected and working together is as old as life itself. And they did it all without worrying about privacy or data. The Fossil ...

500 million years ago, the world was a very different place. Basically all life lived in the water, which held a lot of animals that looked pretty different from the ones we recognize today. One of ...