A remarkable assemblage of fossils from China is revealing that animal life diversified in Earth's primordial seas millions ...

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 ...

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

The transition from water to land is a question that still intrigues scientists. Those ancient organisms would have needed to adapt to several new challenges to life out of water. So, how did they do ...

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

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 ...

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

The discovery of why some birds emit more heat than others can be used for both conservation and the creation of ...

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

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