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

Recent fossil discoveries in China provide crucial insights into the early evolution of complex animals, revealing a significant transition that occurred millions of years earlier than previously ...

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

A fossil bed in China containing animals up to 554 million years old suggests that we may have to reconsider the idea that ...

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

More than 700 fossils from China’s Jiangchuan Biota reveal that complex animals had origins millions of years earlier than ...

(CNN) — The story of two of the strangest animals on the planet just got a little stranger, thanks to clues revealed by a lone fossil specimen that scientists now say represents a long-extinct ...

New discoveries of fossil clawed footprints from Australia, published in Nature, push the origin of reptiles back in time by at least 35 million years and change the entire timeline for the origin of ...

When the environment changes dramatically, animals from mollusks to crows can make big changes in their behavior that enable ...

"This Springer imprint is published by Springer Nature"--Title page verso. NH copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. Part I. The wider evolutionary context. 1. Evolutionary ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An artist’s impression depicts Kryoryctes at Dinosaur Cove in Australia. New research supports the hypothesis that Kryoryctes is a ...