The fossilized backbones of what appeared to be woolly mammoths have turned out to come from an entirely different and unexpected animal. Archaeologist Otto Geist came across the bones – two ...

KUNMING — Chinese scientists have discovered well-preserved multicellular animal fossils in Ediacaran strata of eastern Yunnan province, indicating that complex animal communities existed in oceans ...

When most people picture animals, they tend to think of the big, familiar ones: dogs, birds, fish, maybe elephants or whales. The thing is, creatures like that are a tiny minority. Around 97% of all ...