In a hillside in Yunnan province, southwest China, paleontologists have pulled more than 700 fossils from rock that is roughly 554 million years old. The collection, known as the Jiangchuan Biota, ...

Tribrachidium heraldicum, one of the most enigmatic critters from the Ediacaran fauna. A new study has for the first time precisely dated some of the oldest fossils in the world, helping to track a ...

For more than a century, the Cambrian explosion has served as biology’s big bang: the moment, roughly 538.8 million years ago ...

Scientists discovered exceptionally preserved Ediacaran fossils in sandstone. (Image: Geology) Scientists solved how Ediacaran soft-bodied fossils survived in sandstone. Ancient seawater chemistry and ...

Aug. 21 (UPI) --New fossil analysis suggests the planet's earliest known animals emerged at least 571 million years ago. The new study -- published this month in the journal Paleontology-- proves ...

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

Fossils of the bilaterian Ikaria wariootia found in South Australia represent one of the oldest examples of an organism with anterior and posterior differentiation, according to a study. During the ...