A reconstruction of the Jiangchuan biota, an assemblage of early animals represented by fossils from a newly discovered fossil site in China?s Yunnan Province dating to about 554 to 539 million years ...

Scientists in China have uncovered over 700 fossils from the Jiangchuan Biota, dating back 554 million years, that show complex animals existed millions of years before the Cambrian explosion. The ...

In a hillside in Yunnan province, southwest China, paleontologists have pulled more than 700 fossils from rock that is ...

Fossils in China reveal early life that predates animals and show that ancient ecosystems were more complex than previously ...

Learn how fossil evidence reveals the repeatable way early humans accessed, processed, and shared meat.

Jan 28 (Reuters) - Scientists have unearthed in southern China fossils of a multitude of marine creatures dating to more than a half billion years ago, showing a deep-water ecosystem thriving in the ...

KUNMING — Chinese scientists have discovered well-preserved multicellular animal fossils in Ediacaran strata of eastern Yunnan province, indicating that complex animal communities existed in oceans ...

Well-preserved fossils of the oldest known species allowed researchers to find new information about the ancient animal.

The discovery of a fossil "treasure trove" has pushed back the origins of animals at least four million years. The "exciting" find in China includes the remains of a creature that "looks like the sand ...

The details of how animal life began are a bit murky. Most of the groups familiar today are present in the Cambrian, a period ...