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

Newly discovered fossils have given scientists their first real glimpse of when Earth made a crucial transition from plants ...

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

Hidden within fish DNA are powerful genetic twists that may explain one of nature’s biggest mysteries: how new species form so quickly. In Lake Malawi, hundreds of cichlid fish species evolved at ...