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 ...

The curious minds at What If explore whether you could survive the Cambrian period if you were alive then, imagining predators, primitive ecosystems, and adaptations.

Fossils from China's Chengjiang beds reveal that early vertebrate ancestors, jawless fish called myllokunmingids, possessed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The fossil of the Cambrian Period marine arthropod Fuxianhuiid, with gut preserved, discovered in Hunan province in southern China ...

BEIJING — 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 ...

A research team at Yunnan University has found that the earliest known vertebrates from the Cambrian Period may have ...

The earliest ancestors of all backboned animals, including humans, may have viewed the world with four eyes, not just two.

Say ahhh! A woman searching for fossils on a recent vacation with her husband got more than she bargained for when she found a weird and terrifying formation resembling a set of human teeth. Christine ...

The unusual looking fossil is estimated to be a few hundred million years old dating to the Carboniferous period.

The earliest recorded vertebrates had four eyes to escape predators in the ancient Cambrian ocean, according to half-a-billion-year-old fossils from China that shed light on our evolutionary origins.

An illustration of a four-eyed myllokunmingid, a jawless fish that lived more than 500 million years ago Xiangtong Lei and Sihang Zhang Many spine-bearing creatures, or vertebrates, have a curious bit ...