Fossils from China's Yunnan Province are reshaping our understanding of early animal evolution, revealing a rich diversity of life forms that existed millions of years before the Cambrian Explosion.

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 ...

A team of international researchers unearthed intricate creatures previously thought to have evolved in a later epoch.

A remarkable assemblage of fossils from China is revealing that animal life diversified in Earth's primordial seas millions ...

Our study suggests that our eyes descend from a worm-like ancestor that was roaming the oceans 600 million years ago. The ...

When we picture the first tetrapods, or land vertebrates, crawling out of the ocean, we probably imagine they need legs. But ...

Ducks with corkscrew penises, fish changing sex – what do we really know about sex and reproduction on Earth? Less than we ...

A research team from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences ...

Even back then, scientists were puzzled. Many prediction models suggested this fish shouldn’t survive beyond roughly 10,000 ...

When we think of the fish that inhabit the deep blue sea today, it’s easy to forget that they haven’t always been there. The ...

A comparison with the environmental settings and biological adaptations of nearly 6,000 terrestrial mammalian species demonstrates the profound advantages of human cultural adaptations.

Zhu Min introduces the discovery of the oldest known bony fish fossil at a conference on research results on tracing the early evolutionary history of "from fish to humans". Sun Zifa/China News ...