Chinese scientists have discovered well-preserved multicellular animal fossils in Ediacaran strata of eastern Yunnan, indicating that complex animal communities existed in oceans long before the ...

Around 540 million years ago, the ocean erupted with complex life: Creatures rapidly transformed from simple, soft-bodied, ...

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

Fossils from China reveal complex animals existed before the Cambrian explosion, reshaping the timeline of early animal ...

Fossils in China show that complex animals existed before the Cambrian explosion, changing our understanding of how life ...

Among the fossil finds were bilateral worm-like animals that may have anchored themselves to the seafloor, early comb jellies ...

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

A fossil assemblage from Yunnan province in southwest China is reshaping scientific understanding of how animal life ...

The discovery of a new fossil site in China has revealed exceptionally well-preserved specimens from the Ediacaran Period.

Sometime before 520 million years ago, animal life began to flourish as never before. The small shells, worms and even sponge-like enigmas of earlier eras suddenly unfolded into a new array of species ...

The complete absence of these creatures in later strata suggests they might have vanished in a mass-extinction event that ...

A paleontological site discovered in the southwestern Chinese province of Yunnan has yielded more than 700 fossil specimens ...