A fossil bed in China containing animals up to 554 million years old suggests that we may have to reconsider the idea that ...

A newly discovered fossil site in southwest China has transformed our understanding of how complex animal life emerged on ...

The complete absence of these creatures in later strata suggests they might have vanished in a mass-extinction event that ...

Newfound fossils from China suggest that complex animals were around millions of years earlier than thought, among them ...

An incredible fossil has become the oldest known chelicerate – the group of animals that includes spiders and scorpions.

Hundreds of Chinese fossils from the dawn of animal evolution may change how scientists think of this critical period of ...