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 ...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, April 2 (Reuters) - A remarkable assemblage of fossils from China is revealing that animal life ...

Scientists have discovered fossils in China that reveal a crucial transition from simple to complex life on Earth.

Ancient fossils from South China reveal the earliest bony fishes and shed new light on how jaws, teeth, and key vertebrate features evolved before the major fish lineages diverged.

Jawbone fragments and teeth from a previously unknown species hint that the evolution of modern apes occurred in what's now ...

A breakthrough discovery in Utah has revealed a 500-million-year-old chelicera fossil that is the oldest known spider and ...

A stunning new fossil find from the Grand Canyon fills in some blanks from a time when evolution began experimenting with weird new forms. Frustratingly, fossils from later in the Cambrian period are ...

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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One of three jawbones excavated from Thomas Quarry in Morocco that is 773,000 years old. - Hamza Mehimdate/Programme Préhistoire ...

A fossil that would fit on a baby’s fingertip has revealed fresh clues about the evolution of the earliest-known relative of all primates, including humans. Remains of the now extinct shrew-sized ...

Shaw Badenhorst works for the University of the Witwatersrand. He receives funding from GENUS, the National Research Foundation and the Palaeontological Scientific Trust. South Africa has one of the ...