Scientists have discovered fossils in China that reveal a crucial transition from simple to complex life on Earth.

New discoveries of fossil clawed footprints from Australia, published in Nature, push the origin of reptiles back in time by at least 35 million years and change the entire timeline for the origin of ...

One of the most important steps in the evolution of modern mammals was the development of highly sensitive hearing. The middle ear of mammals, with an eardrum and several small bones, allows us to ...

Recent fossil discoveries in China provide crucial insights into the early evolution of complex animals, revealing a ...

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

More than 700 fossils from China’s Jiangchuan Biota reveal that complex animals had origins millions of years earlier than ...