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

Scientists in Canada have uncovered 567-million-year-old fossils that may rewrite the story of early animal evolution.

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

Researchers studying ancient rocks from the late Ediacaran period uncovered a fossil evidence that complex animal groups, including the closest known invertebrate relatives of humans, may have existed ...

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 ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Most of these fossilized animals are ancestors of modern invertebrates, including modern starfish, but a few among them count as ancient ancestors of ...

An international research team was led by teams from Oxford University's Museum of Natural History and Department of Earth Sciences, along with Yunnan University in China. More than 700 fossils were ...

Elaborate life could be much older on Earth than previously thought. A team of researchers has uncovered a fossil site in Yunnan province, southwestern China, where over seven hundred specimens dating ...

A newly described fossil site in Newfoundland, Canada is shaking up a long-standing timeline of Earth’s earliest large life. The rocks hold soft-bodied fossils that look like classic “Avalon” ...

WASHINGTON - A remarkable assemblage of fossils from China is revealing that animal life diversified in Earth's primordial seas millions of years earlier than previously known, with an array of forms ...

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.