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

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

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

Trove of fossils discovered in Canada sheds light on "when life first became large, complex and unmistakenly animal." ...

The Ediacaran, an era that ended about 540 million years ago, is considered the prelude to the Cambrian explosion, a period ...

Advanced imaging at a particle accelerator has debunked the theory that ancient rock markings were animal origins ...

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

Advances in imaging techniques reportedly debunks a purported "animal" fossil from long before the Cambrian explosion.

Researchers studying ancient rocks from the late Ediacaran period uncovered a fossil evidence that complex animal groups, ...

More than 500 million years ago, during what is known as the Cambrian period, the seas and oceans on Earth were filled with a ...

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