Afossil uncovered along the Yangtze River in China is forcing scientists to rethink not just the origins of sponges but also the way they search for the earliest traces of animal life. For decades, a ...

Dr. Rossi and her team solved this mystery using a two-step approach. Firstly, they combined high-quality data from 133 protein-coding genes with fossil evidence to construct a new timescale for ...

Almost a hundred new animal species that survived a mass extinction event half a billion years ago have been discovered in a small quarry in China, scientists revealed Wednesday. The treasure trove of ...