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

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 ...

Did Earth’s major diversification event really happen in one sudden explosion? Our fossil discovery suggests not.

The latest clues hint at where pterosaurs — the first vertebrates to fly — came from, how they evolved, what they ate and more.