A recent paper in Nature details what scientists found at the Huayuan biota: Here we report the Huayuan biota — a lower ...

When considering mass extinctions, people often think of the asteroid strike that wiped out all non-avian dinosaurs. But life ...

A treasure trove of Cambrian fossils has been discovered in southern China, providing a window on marine life shortly after ...

How did soft-bodied organisms remain intact for millions of years?

Jan 28 (Reuters) - Scientists have unearthed in southern China fossils of a multitude of marine creatures dating to more than ...

The Ediacara Biota are some of the strangest fossils ever found—soft-bodied organisms preserved in remarkable detail where ...

The exceptionally well-preserved fossils shine a light on the mass extinction that brought an end to the "Biological Big Bang." ...

Around 540 million years ago, Earth's biosphere underwent a pivotal transformation, shifting from a microbe-dominated world ...

New fossil evidence from China suggests that some of our vertebrate ancestors had four eyes. The study, published in Nature, ...

The huge find offered new insights into what is known as the “Cambrian explosion,” around 530 million years ago.

The fossils offer a rare glimpse into a cataclysmic event that brought a sudden end to the greatest explosion of life in our planet's history.

The deposit contains more than 50 unknown species from the Cambrian Explosion. This is an Inside Science story. (Inside Science) -- A new trove of outstandingly preserved fossils in China from the ...