The paper, published in the journal Papers in Paleontology, recounts an assemblage of eukaryotic fossils from an era early in the group's evolutionary history. The authors describe four new taxa ...

Using the CONOP program and a global compilation of fossil eukaryotes, Qing Tang and colleagues constructed a high-resolution ...

A Cambrian fossil once thought to be a mollusk ancestor is now identified as a chancelloriid relative, reshaping ideas about ...

But tracing the earliest eukaryotes back through Earth’s history has been difficult. Limited fossil data shows that their first ancestor appeared at least 1.6 billion years ago. Yet other telltale ...

Fossils from Scotland’s East Kirkton Quarry are now dated to 346 million years ago, offering rare insight into vertebrate ...

All animals, plants, and fungi are eukaryotes, and if complex cells had not developed on Earth, there would be no fish, flowers, mushrooms, or humans. While the oldest confirmed fossils of ...

But scientists know almost nothing about the abundance, ecology and habitats of those early microorganisms. Molecular and physical fossils of eukaryotes dated to 800 million years ago have been found.

Chinese archaeologists have discovered a batch of fossils of multicellular eukaryotes that date back to 1.63 billion years ago, setting the world's oldest record of such fossils. These well ...

The paper, published in the journal Papers in Paleontology, recounts an assemblage of eukaryotic fossils from an era early in the group’s evolutionary history. The authors describe four new taxa ...

The sun has just set on a quiet mudflat in Australia’s Northern Territory; it’ll set again in another 19 hours. A young moon looms large over the desolate landscape. No animals scurry in the waning ...