Around 540 million years ago, the ocean erupted with complex life: Creatures rapidly transformed from simple, soft-bodied, ...

Hundreds of Chinese fossils from the dawn of animal evolution may change how scientists think of this critical period of ...

While snorkeling for fossils in Bender’s Cave, which is located on private land, University of Texas paleontologist John ...

The groundwater flowing through the subterranean cave systems of central Texas are vital for both farming and daily life.

Nautilus and Allonautilus cephalopods and their extinct ancestors have been drifting through the mesophotic zone of the ocean ...

Jawbone fragments and teeth from a previously unknown species hint that the evolution of modern apes occurred in what's now ...

Newfound fossils from China suggest that complex animals were around millions of years earlier than thought, among them ...

Researchers found a long-lost ice age ecosystem in Bender's Cave, Texas ...

This research shows how close examination of even microscopic fossils can reveal large-scale patterns such as ocean ...

They found remains of animals that have never been uncovered in Central Texas. The fossils hint that the region was warm, ...

Fossils in China show that complex animals existed before the Cambrian explosion, changing our understanding of how life ...

Some of the most ancient fossils collected to date were traced back to the Ediacaran period. This is the time interval ranging from around 635 to 541 million years ago, shortly before the time when ...