The rock formations in the Yana Caves area are over 2,700 million years old, formed by the pressures of plate tectonics and ...

Buried miles down in the oldest rock on Earth, a hidden energy source has been fueling isolated life for over a billion years ...

How and why the Cambrian explosion occurred has been the subject of debate ever since fossils of this remarkable event were ...

A rare fossil discovery is shedding light on the “missing years” of early sponge evolution. Scientists found a ...

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

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 ...

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 ...