A hilly 512 ha site in Yunnan province, Chengjiang’s fossils present the most complete record of an early Cambrian marine community with exceptionally preserved biota, displaying the anatomy of hard ...

Erratus sperare was discovered in the Chengjiang Fossil Site, a UNESCO World Heritage Site located in Yunnan, China. The Chengjiang Fossil Site preserves an ancient underwater ecosystem which included ...

In 2012, Dr Ma and Dr Edgecombe turned that presumption on its head - and out rolled a brain. The breakthrough came when they were studying a 517-million-year-old arthropod fossil, Fuxianhuia protensa ...

Spearheading research across space and time About 52 km southwest of Yunnan’s provincial capital, Kunming, the Maotianshan Shales at Chengjiang county is home to scattered fossil sites of the ...