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 ...

Recent fossil discoveries in China provide crucial insights into the early evolution of complex animals, revealing a significant transition that occurred millions of years earlier than previously ...

Fossils in China show that complex animals existed before the Cambrian explosion, changing our understanding of how life ...

A previously misidentified Triassic cynodont has been confirmed as a new species, revealing a surviving lineage of early ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ancient fossil evidence reshapes the story of the evolution of echidnas and platypuses, revealing a surprising aquatic ancestry.

The discovery of a new fossil site in China has revealed exceptionally well-preserved specimens from the Ediacaran Period.

A major gap in South Korea's prehistoric record has been filled with the discovery of Onggwanoolithus aphaedoensis, the first ...

New clues about our earliest ancestors suggest they may have reached Eurasia sooner than scientists once thought. Fossils found in Romania hint that hominins left Africa nearly two million years ...

While there is a common belief that the evolution of humans can be traced back to fishlike vertebrate ancestors, pinpointing ...

A new study shows how the mismatch between where fossils are preserved and where humans likely lived may influence our understanding of early human evolution. Much of the early human fossil record ...

Coelacanths, often termed “living fossils”, represent an extraordinary lineage of lobe‐finned fishes with a fossil record spanning from the Devonian to the present. Their evolutionary history is ...