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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 life suddenly diversified during the Cambrian explosion ...

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A newly discovered fossil site in southwest China has transformed our understanding of how complex animal life emerged on ...

Hundreds of Chinese fossils from the dawn of animal evolution may change how scientists think of this critical period of ...

A treasure trove of fossils from China shows that the Cambrian explosion may have been less explosive than scientists once ...