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

Scientists have discovered fossils in China that reveal a crucial transition from simple to complex life on Earth.

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 ...

Animals able to change behaviors but slow to evolve might fare better than previously thought amid climate change.

The transition from water to land is a question that still intrigues scientists. Those ancient organisms would have needed to ...

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

Learn how newly discovered Ediacaran fossils are pushing the origins of animals back millions of years before the Cambrian ...

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