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

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

When the environment changes dramatically, animals from mollusks to crows can make big changes in their behavior that enable ...

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

The most striking finds were fossils thought to be the oldest known deuterostomes — the broad biological group that includes ...

Animals that adapt behaviorally may evolve physically more slowly, showing resilience rather than weakness in changing ...

A fossil assemblage from China’s Yunnan province suggests animal life diversified in the Ediacaran Period earlier than ...

The transition from water to land is a question that still intrigues scientists. Those ancient organisms would have needed to ...

The human ability to cook may seem ordinary, but it marks one of the most important evolutionary turning points in our ...

Ancient animal history is extremely difficult to reconstruct, for a number of reasons. Some of the earliest creatures in ...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, April 2 (Reuters) - A remarkable assemblage of fossils from China is revealing that animal life ...

A new study reveals how squid and cuttlefish began in the deep sea and survived Earth’s biggest extinction to thrive ...