NANJING, Jan. 29 (Xinhua) -- Scientists in China have unearthed a treasure trove of ancient fossils that is helping to rewrite the story of one of Earth's earliest and least-understood catastrophes: ...
A treasure trove of Cambrian fossils has been discovered in southern China, providing a window on marine life shortly after ...
The fossils offer a rare glimpse into a cataclysmic event that brought a sudden end to the greatest explosion of life in our ...
Around 540 million years ago, Earth's biosphere underwent a pivotal transformation, shifting from a microbe-dominated world to one teeming with animal ...
Just over half a billion years ago, Earth was rocked by a global mass extinction event, a dramatic interruption of the ...
About 445 million years ago, Earth’s oceans turned into a danger zone. Glaciers spread across the supercontinent Gondwana, ...