How ancient bryozoans may have looked. (Zhifei Zhang) The Cambrian explosion was one of the most dramatic chapters in the ...

Bryozoans are tiny, filter-feeding colonial invertebrates that thrive in the world's oceans today, yet for decades their ...

A newly discovered trove of fossils in southwestern China is shifting the timeline of when complex animals evolved. The diversity and complexity of animal life is thought to have increased rapidly ...

Tracks left by some of the earliest complex animals are giving new insights into how they experienced the world. New research ...

Tiny honeycomb-like colonies from southern China have opened a long-running gap in the story of animal life. For decades, ...

A discovery hidden inside 520-million-year-old rocks has solved an evolutionary enigma and could even rewrite the entire tree ...

For decades, scientists have wondered what triggered the sudden "explosion" of complex animal life on Earth. This new hypothesis suggests that the answer isn't found in shells or legs, but in the ...

More than 540 million years ago, in the seafloor of the Ediacaran, something changed forever. Animals began to see. Or rather ...

Animal life is extraordinarily diverse and complex, having colonised almost all environments on Earth – from hostile hydrothermal vents in the deep sea to the skies across our continents. But all this ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Scientists believe they’ve deduced why prehistoric Ediacara Biota fossils have remained preserved for millions of years. The fossils of these ...

Tracks left by some of the earliest complex animals are giving new insights into how they experienced the world. New research reveals how these creatures started to understand their surroundings, ...

Step back in time and see what life would be like during the Cambrian explosion. Tears flowed in S.F. courtroom as immigration judge was fired mid-hearing Actress Tara Reid hospitalized after hotel ...