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

Until now, there was a conflict in the field of paleontology. Genetic analysis of how fast traits mutated and evolved ...

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

The most striking finds were fossils thought to be the oldest known deuterostomes — the broad biological group that includes ...

Animals that adapt behaviorally may evolve physically more slowly, showing resilience rather than weakness in changing ...

A microorganism whose evolutionary roots can be traced to the era of the first multicellular animals may provide a glimpse of how single-celled organisms made a critical evolutionary leap. In ...

Animals able to change behaviors but slow to evolve might fare better than previously thought amid climate change.

(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 ...

A fossil assemblage from China’s Yunnan province suggests animal life diversified in the Ediacaran Period earlier than ...

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

The Evolution of Armor in Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Animals" puts the spotlight on armored animals and the history of the ...