Aug. 21 (UPI) --New fossil analysis suggests the planet's earliest known animals emerged at least 571 million years ago. The new study -- published this month in the journal Paleontology-- proves ...

The animal kingdom is likely older than current scientific understanding suggests, according to a study published in the journal Palaeontology. Researchers found that a marine creature, known as ...

Between 580 and 540 million years ago, toward the end of the so-called Ediacaran Period, the first complex animals emerged in Earth's shallow oceans. Now, scientists from the University of California, ...

Imagine a mask made when you die that could preserve your face for millions of years. In a way, this is what happened to some of our planet's oldest known animals. Encased in “death masks” made of the ...

When did animals originate? Evolutionary theorist Charles Darwin may have speculated about the forms that early animals took, but our research published in the journal Palaeontology answers the animal ...

Sept. 20 (UPI) --Scientists have discovered a fat molecule preserved in a 558-million-year-old fossil. According to a new paper published this week in the journal Science, the discovery confirms ...

A postgraduate student of the Faculty of Geology of MSU, working with an international scientific group, participated in chemical analysis of biomarkers -- compounds that remained after the ...