Find out more about Body Fossils and Trace Fossils. Fossils can be categorized in two basic types: body fossils and trace fossils. Body fossils help scientists learn what plants and animals looked ...

A fossil assemblage from Yunnan province in southwest China is reshaping scientific understanding of how animal life graduated from simple, soft-bodied forms to the complex body plans that dominate ...

In a hillside in Yunnan province, southwest China, paleontologists have pulled more than 700 fossils from rock that is roughly 554 million years old. The collection, known as the Jiangchuan Biota, ...

This bird type exhibited a great number of different morphological features and adaptations. Notably, many species of this bird type had teeth, which cannot be observed among modern-day birds. This ...