Researchers have uncovered a remarkable fossil site in a remote part of Canada's Northwest Territories, offering ...

Led by Scott Evans, assistant curator of invertebrate palaeontology at the American Museum of Natural History, it draws on ...

The Canadian fossils belong to the White Sea group. But they appear to be around 567 million years old – 5 to 10 million ...

Earth is home to millions of animal species today, from tiny insects and marine worms to giant whales. For many years, ...

But more than half a billion years ago this wilderness was an ancient seafloor home to the wrinkled pancakes, fleshy fronds ...

Researchers in Canada discovered 567-million-year-old Ediacaran fossils that may contain the earliest evidence of sexual ...

They looked like traces left behind by tiny creatures, but were most likely microbes.

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

For more than a century, the Cambrian explosion has served as biology’s big bang: the moment, roughly 538.8 million years ago, when complex animal body plans seemingly burst into the fossil record ...

Scientists revisiting mysterious 540-million-year-old microfossils from Brazil have overturned a major idea about early animal life. What were once thought to be trails left behind by tiny worm-like ...

Trove of fossils discovered in Canada sheds light on "when life first became large, complex and unmistakenly animal." ...