Newly discovered fossils have given scientists their first real glimpse of when Earth made a crucial transition from plants and unrecognizably simple animals to the complex creatures that ...

Scientists have discovered fossils in China that reveal a crucial transition from simple to complex life on Earth ...

Scientists have discovered fossils in China that reveal a crucial transition from simple to complex life on Earth ...

Newfound fossils from China suggest that complex animals were around millions of years earlier than thought, among them ...

A fossil bed in China containing animals up to 554 million years old suggests that we may have to reconsider the idea that ...

The timeline of terrestrial evolution holds surprises. While scientists thought complex life required oxygen, a recent discovery shows it began forming in oceans deprived of this element, nearly a ...

The discovery of a new fossil site in China has revealed exceptionally well-preserved specimens from the Ediacaran Period.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Illustration of a human cell, with colorful organelles, on a black background The origins of complex, nucleated cellular life – ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Asgard microbes were found in shallow coastal sediments off the coast of Uruguay. - Monika Naranjo-Shepard/Schmidt Ocean Institute ...

A biochemist, building on the pillars of evolutionary theory and drawing on cutting-edge research into the link between energy and genes, argues that the evolution of multicellular life was the result ...

This artist’s impression shows the planet-forming disc around the star V883 Orionis. In the outermost part of the disc, volatile gases are frozen out as ice, which contains complex organic molecules.