It's thought the Earth is currently entering its sixth major extinction event, but a new study suggests it may actually be the seventh. Scientists have found evidence of a previously unknown mass ...

An international team of scientists say they have new insight into how the very earliest animals survived after traces of what they described as the world’s oldest meal were found in a 550 ...

What’s more, most Ediacaran remains went undisturbed because there weren’t yet scavengers to dig up the carcasses. Instead, Ediacaran animals often ate by filtering scraps of decaying organic ...

One of the oldest meals ever eaten may have been discovered in a fossil over half a billion years old.. A mollusc-like animal known as Kimberella appears to have enjoyed a meal of green algae and ...

Using fossil evidence and genetic dating, geneticists and paleontologists have backed strikingly different candidates for the world's first animal. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

Earth’s magnetic field was once 30 times weaker than it is today. This change may have played a pivotal role in the blossoming of complex life, new research found.

This Enigmatic Blob Was One of Earth's Earliest Animals. The strange life-form has long perplexed scientists. So a team of researchers used modern analyses to take a fresh look at its ancient remains.

Paleontologists have revealed the fossilized remains of a curious creature that is not only one of Earth's oldest animals, but may even be the first to have ever been mobile.

Researchers have uncovered evidence of a 555-million-year-old worm-like creature in Australia. As if that wasn’t exciting enough, experts believe this is the first ancestor of all animals ...

And some people claim that an Ediacaran fossil called Arkarua is an echinoderm, though it lacks the shelly exoskeleton characteristic of the group. Moreover, ...