Today, our planet is teeming with life, but it has not always looked the same. Long before forests reached skyward, animals ...

Researchers may have uncovered the reason why some of Earth's earliest animals were commonly preserved as fossils—even though ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Spriggina floundersi fossils collected in Australia preserve mirror image impressions of the original wormlike creatures, - Scott ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This goblet-shaped fossil from the Jiangchuan Biota in China's Yunnan province is an early species from a group that includes ...

The way that Earth's first animals reproduced held back life's diversity for millions of years, until stress and competition led to the development of sexual reproduction, which in turn accelerated ...

Mysterious 97-million-year-old magnetic fossils may be the oldest evidence of an animal using Earth’s magnetic field like a built-in GPS. Their sophisticated magnetic structure could have helped an ...

Life on Earth started sometime before 3.5 billion years ago, although it was clearly in no rush to become the vast network of diverse beings that exists today. Traditionally, many scientists suspected ...

A research team led by Profs. ZHU Min, LU Jing, and ZHU You'an from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences published two back-to-back ...

New, miniscule fossils of the earliest-known relative of all primates, including humans, Purgatorius, have been unearthed in a more southern region of North America than ever before – and the ...