More than two decades after scientists identified a fossil as the world’s oldest octopus — officials now say it wasn’t one at ...

I first read Lulu Miller’s Why Fish Don’t Exist in 2024. Interspersed with her personal exploration of finding purpose, ...

The world's oldest octopus fossil is no longer an octopus. A new study by researchers says the 300-million-year-old creature ...

If you trace the animal family tree back through the fossil record, the trail usually goes cold about 539 million years ago. Before this boundary—the start of the famous Cambrian explosion—multicelled ...

Did Earth’s major diversification event really happen in one sudden explosion? Our fossil discovery suggests not.

Animal life is extraordinarily diverse and complex, having colonized almost all environments on Earth—from hostile ...

Ancient fossils from South China reveal the earliest bony fishes and shed new light on how jaws, teeth, and key vertebrate ...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, April 2 (Reuters) - A remarkable assemblage of fossils from China is revealing that animal life ...

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

A famous 300-million-year-old fossil that was thought to be the world's oldest octopus—even featuring in the Guinness Book of ...

What started as routine fossil cleaning turned into a major scientific surprise when researchers uncovered a tiny claw in a ...

Hundreds of Chinese fossils from the dawn of animal evolution may change how scientists think of this critical period of ...