How and why the Cambrian explosion occurred has been the subject of debate ever since fossils of this remarkable event were ...
A remarkable fossil discovery in southwest China is rewriting the story of how complex animal life began, showing that many key animal groups appeared millions of years earlier than scientists once ...
The assemblage suggests that the ancestors of some of today's animal groups may have arisen before the famed Cambrian ...
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 ...