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

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

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

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

Fossil evidence from approximately 520-million-year-old rocks in China finally places bryozoans where they belong, at the heart of the Cambrian ...

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

A remarkable fossil hidden in a museum collection for decades is helping scientists rethink one of the biggest mysteries in ...

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, ...

Sea-floor trails left by animals more than half a billion years ago could be the earliest evidence of the evolution of vision ...

Palaeontologists found the "Furongian gap" era which had an explosion of bio-diversity within the fossil record both immediately before and after it.

Roughly 500 million years ago, a strange event in the evolution of life on Earth seems to have taken place. The known fossil ...