A rare fossil discovery is shedding light on the “missing years” of early sponge evolution. Scientists found a ...

Fossils in China show that complex animals existed before the Cambrian explosion, changing our understanding of how life ...

Fossils are rare because their formation and discovery depend on chains of ecological and geological events that occur over deep time. Only a small fraction of the primates that have ever lived has ...

Among some of the most spectacular fossils unearthed are those found in strange locations, and new research is now showing ...