More than three million years ago, in the area that is now Ethiopia, our early human ancestors lived in a landscape that ...

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A new species of ancient primate challenges what we think we know about where human ancestors diverged from monkeys.

Fossils in China show that complex animals existed before the Cambrian explosion, changing our understanding of how life ...

Until now, there was a conflict in the field of paleontology. Genetic analysis of how fast traits mutated and evolved ...

A remarkable assemblage of fossils from China is revealing that animal life diversified in Earth's primordial seas millions ...

Around 540 million years ago, the ocean erupted with complex life: Creatures rapidly transformed from simple, soft-bodied, ...

A newly discovered fossil site in southwest China has transformed our understanding of how complex animal life emerged on ...

The complete absence of these creatures in later strata suggests they might have vanished in a mass-extinction event that ...

Scientists have discovered fossils showing that complex animals existed millions of years before the Cambrian explosion, reshaping the timeline of life on Earth. The finds reveal a strange, diverse ...

New fossils suggest early apes originated in Africa, strengthening evidence that all modern apes trace their roots to the ...

Zhu Min introduces the discovery of the oldest known bony fish fossil at a conference on research results on tracing the early evolutionary history of "from fish to humans". Sun Zifa/China News ...