Just over half a billion years ago, Earth was rocked by a global mass extinction event, a dramatic interruption of the ...

The exceptionally well-preserved fossils shine a light on the mass extinction that brought an end to the "Biological Big Bang ...

The fossils offer a rare glimpse into a cataclysmic event that brought a sudden end to the greatest explosion of life in our ...

Scientists discovered well-preserved marine fossils in southern China, uncovering a thriving deep-water ecosystem after a ...

The Ediacara Biota are some of the strangest fossils ever found—soft-bodied organisms preserved in remarkable detail where ...

A treasure trove of Cambrian fossils has been discovered in southern China, providing a window on marine life shortly after ...

The missing link in the mystery turned out to be an event called the Cambrian explosion. It was only after it that living organisms started developing hard shells and skeletons.

Around 540 million years ago, Earth's biosphere underwent a pivotal transformation, shifting from a microbe-dominated world to one teeming with animal ...

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 aftermath of the ...