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. Around a billion years were missing, and the problem turned out to be global.

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 discovery is rewriting what scientists know about one of the earliest chapters ...

Researchers studying the soft-bodied Ediacaran biotas of the world generally accept that there are three distinct assemblages. The 575–560-million-year-old (Ma) Avalon Assemblage is best known from ...

Scientists have unearthed in southern China fossils of a multitude of marine creatures dating to more than a half billion years ago, showing a deep-water ecosystem thriving in the aftermath of the ...

Dr. Zhu Maoyan, researcher and academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (second from right), leads a field team investigating an excavation site for fossils in Mozicun, Shilan town, Huayuan ...

LONDON, Feb 9 (Reuters) - Biodiversity loss is emerging as a systemic risk to the global economy and financial stability, a landmark report said on Monday, urging companies to act now or potentially ...