Advances in imaging techniques reportedly debunks a purported "animal" fossil from long before the Cambrian explosion.

Scientists discovered that some of Earth’s supposed earliest animal fossils were actually giant ancient microbes.

A reconstruction of the Jiangchuan biota, an assemblage of early animals represented by fossils from a newly discovered fossil site in China?s Yunnan Province dating to about 554 to 539 million years ...

Scientists revisiting mysterious 540-million-year-old microfossils from Brazil have overturned a major idea about early ...

A reexamination of microfossils found in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul shows that the marks previously ...

Jan 28 (Reuters) - Scientists have unearthed in southern China fossils of a multitude of marine creatures dating to more than a half billion years ago, showing a deep-water ecosystem thriving in the ...

"These aren't traces of animals that may have passed through the area." ...

Fossils in China reveal early life that predates animals and show that ancient ecosystems were more complex than previously thought ...

More than 500 million years ago, during what is known as the Cambrian period, the seas and oceans on Earth were filled with a ...

The details of how animal life began are a bit murky. Most of the groups familiar today are present in the Cambrian, a period when they rapidly diversified, with familiar features evolving alongside ...