Half a billion years after Earth’s first mass extinction, a quarry in China has cracked open a lost ocean world.

A new fossil discovery suggests that Earth's first mass extinction may have been far more sudden and severe than previously ...

Ancient sea organisms survived until a sudden extinction 550 million years ago, revealing what may be the first major mass ...

In 1869, John Wesley Powell was studying layers of rock in the Grand Canyon when he noticed an unconformity in the layers.

The Huayuan biota fills a gap in the fossil record that has made it difficult to study recovery after the Sinsk event. With ...

After an ancient mass extinction wiped out ocean life, what came next? A quarry in China just answered that question.

Now, fossils pulled from a single quarry in southern China are revealing what life looked like in the aftermath — and the ...

Researchers studying the soft-bodied Ediacaran biotas of the world generally accept that there are three distinct assemblages ...

F or the first time, chitin has been identified in a Cambrian Period trilobite. The unexpected discovery could be useful for ...

Scientists have unearthed in southern China fossils of a multitude of marine creatures dating to more than a half billion ...

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