Newly discovered fossils have given scientists their first real glimpse of when Earth made a crucial transition from plants and unrecognizably simple animals to the complex creatures that ...

Until now, there was a conflict in the field of paleontology. Genetic analysis of how fast traits mutated and evolved ...

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A fossil bed in China containing animals up to 554 million years old suggests that we may have to reconsider the idea that ...

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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Once upon a time, there were a bunch of one-celled microbes, swimming, eating, reproducing, doing all the things that a one-cell ...

Conservation of bird species has been a major concern for decades. However, the rate of species loss is accelerating due to ...

(CNN) — The story of two of the strangest animals on the planet just got a little stranger, thanks to clues revealed by a lone fossil specimen that scientists now say represents a long-extinct ...

To understand the origins of multicelled life, researchers are studying a motley assortment of simpler animal relatives. The commonalities they’re unearthing offer a trove of clues about our mutual ...