The Jiangchuan Biota indicates that we may have misjudged the Cambrian “explosion” of complex life.

How and why the Cambrian explosion occurred has been the subject of debate ever since fossils of this remarkable event were ...

A remarkable fossil discovery in southwest China is rewriting the story of how complex animal life began, showing that many key animal groups appeared millions of years earlier than scientists once ...

A newly discovered trove of fossils in southwestern China is shifting the timeline of when complex animals evolved. The diversity and complexity of animal life is thought to have increased rapidly ...

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

A newly discovered fossil site in southwest China, the Jiangchuan Biota, contains about 700 exceptionally preserved specimens dating back 539–554 million years. The find includes early bilaterians and ...

KUNMING, April 15 (Xinhua) -- Chinese scientists have discovered well-preserved multicellular animal fossils in Ediacaran strata of eastern Yunnan, indicating that complex animal communities existed ...

CHINA — Goblet-shaped sea jelly relatives with miniature "arms." A plump, legless creature resembling a sausage. Long, wormlike animals tipped with flat "holdfast" discs for anchoring to the seafloor.

Scientists have uncovered the earliest fossil evidence of annelids (ringed worms) in Cambrian microfossils dating back approximately 535 million years ...