Tracks left by some of the earliest complex animals are giving new insights into how they experienced the world. New research ...

Bryozoans are tiny, filter-feeding colonial invertebrates that thrive in the world's oceans today, yet for decades their ...

Tiny honeycomb-like colonies from southern China have opened a long-running gap in the story of animal life. For decades, ...

A remarkable fossil hidden in a museum collection for decades is helping scientists rethink one of the biggest mysteries in ...

A discovery hidden inside 520-million-year-old rocks has solved an evolutionary enigma and could even rewrite the entire tree ...

More than 540 million years ago, in the seafloor of the Ediacaran, something changed forever. Animals began to see. Or rather ...

For decades, scientists have wondered what triggered the sudden "explosion" of complex animal life on Earth. This new hypothesis suggests that the answer isn't found in shells or legs, but in the ...

Animal life is extraordinarily diverse and complex, having colonised almost all environments on Earth – from hostile hydrothermal vents in the deep sea to the skies across our continents. But all this ...

Sea-floor trails left by animals more than half a billion years ago could be the earliest evidence of the evolution of vision ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Scientists believe they’ve deduced why prehistoric Ediacara Biota fossils have remained preserved for millions of years. The fossils of these ...

Advances in imaging techniques reportedly debunks a purported "animal" fossil from long before the Cambrian explosion.