While snorkeling for fossils in Bender’s Cave, which is located on private land, University of Texas paleontologist John ...

The assemblage suggests that the ancestors of some of today's animal groups may have arisen before the famed Cambrian ...

A 183-million-year-old ichthyosaur from Germany has given scientists their clearest answer yet to a long-standing puzzle: how ...

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

A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences confirms that fossilized remains of marine invertebrates can accurately reflect the functional diversity of past ecosystems ...

A treasure trove of fossils from China shows that the Cambrian explosion may have been less explosive than scientists once ...

A 300-million-year-old fossil that earned a Guiness World Record in 2015 as the world’s oldest octopus, has now been ...

A University of Iowa-led research team looks forward to paleontologists paying more attention to lesser researched species, ...

Learn how a 300-million-year-old fossil once thought to be the oldest octopus was reidentified after hidden teeth were ...

Fossils in China show that complex animals existed before the Cambrian explosion, changing our understanding of how life ...