Researchers have uncovered a remarkable fossil site in a remote part of Canada's Northwest Territories, offering ...

Earth is home to millions of animal species today, from tiny insects and marine worms to giant whales. For many years, ...

But more than half a billion years ago this wilderness was an ancient seafloor home to the wrinkled pancakes, fleshy fronds ...

From butterflies to blue whales, corals and worms, Earth is home to an incredible diversity of animals. How all of these ...

For decades, many paleontologists thought they had the Ediacaran fossil record sorted. The oldest “Avalon” fossils showed up first, then came the richer “White Sea” communities, and finally a simpler ...

Scientists revisiting mysterious 540-million-year-old microfossils from Brazil have overturned a major idea about early ...

Researchers in Canada discovered 567-million-year-old Ediacaran fossils that may contain the earliest evidence of sexual ...

Scientists discovered that some of Earth’s supposed earliest animal fossils were actually giant ancient microbes.

In the red-brown siltstones of Yunnan province, southwest China, paleontologists have found something that was not supposed to be there: worm-shaped animals with bilateral symmetry, preserved ...

Canadian deep-sea fossils push the origin of animal sex and movement back 567 million years, rewriting early evolutionary ...