By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, April 2 (Reuters) - A remarkable assemblage of fossils from China is revealing that animal life ...

Scientists have discovered fossils in China that reveal a crucial transition from simple to complex life on Earth.

Newfound fossils from China suggest that complex animals were around millions of years earlier than thought, among them ...

Ancient fossils from South China reveal the earliest bony fishes and shed new light on how jaws, teeth, and key vertebrate features evolved before the major fish lineages diverged.

Jawbone fragments and teeth from a previously unknown species hint that the evolution of modern apes occurred in what's now ...

Rudy Lerosey-Aubril A tiny claw in a 500-million-year-old fossil just rewrote the origin story of spiders. After a full da ...

A fossil bed in China containing animals up to 554 million years old suggests that we may have to reconsider the idea that ...

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

A previously misidentified Triassic cynodont has been confirmed as a new species, revealing a surviving lineage of early ...

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

Scientists discover fossils that change what we know about evolution - Scientists have discovered fossils in China that ...

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