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

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

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

A newly discovered trove of fossils in southwestern China is shifting the timeline of when complex animals evolved.

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

The Cambrian Explosion in which life on Earth underwent massive diversification was likely triggered by eccentricities in Earth’s orbit around our Sun. Or so say the authors of a new paper just ...

Animals of the Cambrian period went through one of the greatest evolutionary surges in history, known as the Cambrian Explosion. Animals of the Cambrian period likely began as worms or worm-like ...

Timeline: The Cambrian Explosion and Animal Diversity Let’s go back 541 million years. Earth was about to throw the most spectacular evolutionary party in history. For billions of years, life had been ...