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

Newly discovered fossils have given scientists their first real glimpse of when Earth made a crucial transition from plants ...

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

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

Scientists have discovered which animal was the first to branch off from our collective common ancestor. For years, debate had raged over whether the first to diverge was the sea sponge or the comb ...

Animal life is extraordinarily diverse and complex, having colonised almost all environments on Earth – from hostile ...

Lifespan diversity across the animal kingdom reveals extraordinary adaptations to survival, reproduction, and environmental change. While humans consider an average life expectancy of around 70 to 80 ...