During the Ediacaran, for the first time in our planet’s history, animals started to move. We know this because they left ...

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

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In the beginning, life was small. For billions of years, all life on Earth was microscopic, consisting mostly of single cells. Then suddenly, about 570 million years ago, complex organisms including ...

Researchers have uncovered a remarkable fossil site in a remote part of Canada's Northwest Territories, offering unprecedented insight into the earliest evolution of complex animal life on Earth.

They looked like traces left behind by tiny creatures, but were most likely microbes.

From butterflies to blue whales, corals and worms, Earth is home to an incredible diversity of animals. How all of these animals evolved from earlier, simpler ancestors is one of the most exciting ...

In the red-brown siltstones of Yunnan province, southwest China, paleontologists have found something that was not supposed to be there: worm-shaped animals with bilateral symmetry, preserved ...