Scientists have unearthed in southern China fossils of a multitude of marine creatures dating to more than a half billion years ago, showing a deep-water ecosystem thriving in the aftermath of the ...

A recent paper in Nature details what scientists found at the Huayuan biota: Here we report the Huayuan biota — a lower ...

Paleontologists have identified thousands of animal species that lived soon after the Cambrian explosion ended ...

Every mammal, every fish, every vertebrate (creatures that have a spine) has two eyes. It’s been that way for millions and ...

Half a billion years ago, a shallow sea in what is now Siberia teemed with creatures that look more like science fiction than prehistory. Locked in that ancient seabed, scientists have now identified ...

The most famous example of such exquisitely preserved Cambrian fossils is the Burgess Shale of Canada.

Scientists believe they’ve deduced why prehistoric Ediacara Biota fossils have remained preserved for millions of years. The fossils of these soft-bodied creatures from before the Cambrian Explosion ...

NANJING -- Scientists in China have unearthed a treasure trove of ancient fossils that is helping to rewrite the story of one of Earth's earliest and least-understood catastrophes: the first mass ...

The fossils offer a rare glimpse into a cataclysmic event that brought a sudden end to the greatest explosion of life in our planet's history.

Scientists discovered well-preserved marine fossils in southern China, uncovering a thriving deep-water ecosystem after a ...

A treasure trove of Cambrian fossils has been discovered in southern China, providing a window on marine life shortly after ...

The exceptionally well-preserved fossils shine a light on the mass extinction that brought an end to the “Biological Big Bang.” ...