The discovery of a collection of about 700 fossils known as the Jiangchuan Biota gives scientists a better understanding of ...

A remarkable fossil discovery in southwest China is rewriting the story of how complex animal life began, showing that many key animal groups appeared millions of years earlier than scientists once ...

Giant octopuses may have ruled the ancient oceans 100 million years ago, when dinosaurs roamed, according to new research.

KUNMING -- Chinese scientists have discovered well-preserved multicellular animal fossils in Ediacaran strata of eastern Yunnan, indicating that complex animal communities existed in oceans long ...

Some 80 million years ago, the late Cretaceous oceans were patrolled by 17-meter mosasaurs, long-necked plesiosaurs, and ...

Bicharracosaurus dionidei, a newly discovered long-necked dinosaur species, is reshaping how scientists understand the ...

There is strong scientific consensus surrounding this story and it is informed by multiple converging lines of evidence.

The top predator prowling the seas during the age of the dinosaurs 100 million years ago may have been an octopus.

Simply sign up to the Science myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Complex animals appeared on Earth even longer ago than thought, according to a more than 500mn-year-old fossil trove ...

Flinders University researchers have taken a revealing look inside the head of one of the first animals to crawl from the ...

The naturalist revisits the family of apes he had a goosebump-inducingly famous encounter with 50 years ago. You’ll find yourself overcome with awe for the man ...

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