Tiny honeycomb-like colonies from southern China have opened a long-running gap in the story of animal life. For decades, ...

Tracks left by some of the earliest complex animals are giving new insights into how they experienced the world. New research ...

Bryozoans are tiny, filter-feeding colonial invertebrates that thrive in the world's oceans today, yet for decades their ...

Animal life is extraordinarily diverse and complex, having colonised almost all environments on Earth – from hostile hydrothermal vents in the deep sea to the skies across our continents. But all this ...

A huge and beautifully preserved suite of fossils discovered in China has cast doubt on the idea that complex life flourished dramatically during a rapid burst of evolution known as the Cambrian ...

Remarkably preserved relics from southern China — more than half representing species new to science — are transforming our understanding of organisms that survived the first mass extinction of the ...

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Fossil evidence from approximately 520-million-year-old rocks in China finally places bryozoans where they belong, at the heart of the Cambrian ...

Tracks left by some of the earliest complex animals are giving new insights into how they experienced the world. New research reveals how these creatures started to understand their surroundings, ...