Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A reconstruction of the Jiangchuan biota, an assemblage of early animals represented by fossils from a newly discovered fossil ...

For an animal that already looks assembled from spare parts, the platypus has added another twist to its history. Fossils ...

In the red-brown siltstones of Yunnan province, southwest China, paleontologists have found something that was not supposed ...

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

A fossilized millipede-like creature discovered in Scotland may represent the oldest-known land animal, a humble pioneer of terrestrial living 425 million years ago that helped pave the way for the ...

Dinosaurs are among the most majestic and iconic animals to have ever walked on our planet. While they are now extinct, they ...

A rare Antarctic fossil reveals how early fish lived and hunted just before animals began moving onto land 380 million years ...

The kraken: a giant squid or octopus of myth, seems to have swam in the Cretaceous oceans, a Japanese study shows.

The discovery of a fossil "treasure trove" has pushed back the origins of animals at least four million years. The "exciting" find in China includes the remains of a creature that "looks like the sand ...

KUNMING — Chinese scientists have discovered well-preserved multicellular animal fossils in Ediacaran strata of eastern Yunnan province, indicating that complex animal communities existed in oceans ...

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 ...