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

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

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 ...

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

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 ago ...

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

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 ...

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 ...