BEIJING -- A group of fossilized tunnels dug by animals about 550 million years ago, discovered in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River in China, have offered new insights into how the earliest ...

BEIJING, Oct. 30 (Xinhua) -- A group of fossilized tunnels dug by animals about 550 million years ago, discovered in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River in China, have offered new insights into how ...

A research team from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NIGPAS) has made ...

A research team from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NIGPAS) has made progress in studying the ...

Life on Earth began in a way that still boggles the mind. Around 4.5 billion years ago, a chemical process called abiogenesis ...

The Hidden Chapter Finally Gets a Name A research team outlines how it identified and bestowed a moniker upon a previously ...

By far the largest ever found of its kind, the spiny fossil predator "would have made enough scampi to feed an army," one ...

Paleontologists from the Inland Northwest gathered to share their experiences with fossils and how they share stories about ...

A strange Cambrian fossil named Salterella may hold the key to understanding how early animals first built skeletons. As the ...

Controversial evidence hints that complex life might have emerged hundreds of millions of years earlier than previously ...

Picky, pragmatic, and enigmatic — a tiny fossil found in Southwestern Virginia eluded classification for more than 514 million years. Now, Virginia Tech geoscientists have restored this unique ...