A recent paper in Nature details what scientists found at the Huayuan biota: Here we report the Huayuan biota — a lower ...

Paleontologists have identified thousands of animal species that lived soon after the Cambrian explosion ended ...

New fossil evidence from China suggests that some of our vertebrate ancestors had four eyes. The study, published in Nature, takes a closer look at a structure found in multiple 518 million-year-old ...

The Ediacara Biota are some of the strangest fossils ever found—soft-bodied organisms preserved in remarkable detail where ...

A treasure trove of Cambrian fossils has been discovered in southern China, providing a window on marine life shortly after ...

How did soft-bodied organisms remain intact for millions of years?

The most famous example of such exquisitely preserved Cambrian fossils is the Burgess Shale of Canada.

Around 540 million years ago, Earth's biosphere underwent a pivotal transformation, shifting from a microbe-dominated world ...

The exceptionally well-preserved fossils shine a light on the mass extinction that brought an end to the "Biological Big Bang." ...

The deposit contains more than 50 unknown species from the Cambrian Explosion. This is an Inside Science story. (Inside Science) -- A new trove of outstandingly preserved fossils in China from the ...

(CNN) — Paleontologists have discovered remarkable fossils in the Grand Canyon that reveal fresh details about the emergence of complex life half a billion years ago. The newfound remains of fauna ...