How and why the Cambrian explosion occurred has been the subject of debate ever since fossils of this remarkable event were ...

A remarkable fossil discovery in southwest China is rewriting the story of how complex animal life began, showing that many key animal groups appeared millions of years earlier than scientists once ...

Scientists have uncovered the earliest fossil evidence of annelids (ringed worms) in Cambrian microfossils dating back ...

The Nature Index 2025 Research Leaders — previously known as Annual Tables — reveal the leading institutions and countries/territories in the natural and health sciences, according to their output in ...

(Maura McCarthy) This fossil is a pair of claws from Anomalocaris canadensis, the largest Cambrian predator reaching lengths up to three feet, and the first of its type to be discovered at the Stanley ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A team of researchers working in China’s Hunan province has unearthed more than 50,000 fossil specimens from one small quarry, ...

Reconstruction of Jiangchuan biota (~554-539 million years ago). Credit: Xiaodong Wang. A newly discovered fossil site in southwest China has transformed our understanding of how complex animal life ...

Scientists from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have uncovered the ...