A soft-bodied, fernlike creature reproduced in Earth's ancient oceans about 565 million years ago, making it the earliest known example of procreation in a complex organism, a new study finds. Many ...

Researchers led by the University of Cambridge have found the earliest example of reproduction in a complex organism. Their new study has found that some organisms known as rangeomorphs, which lived ...

CAMBRIDGE, England, Aug. 3 (UPI) --Statistical analysis has revealed the sexual behavior of creatures from the genus Fractofusus, a type of rangeomorph, was surprisingly complex. In a new study, ...

The earliest example of reproduction in a complex organism has been discovered in a 565 million-year-old rangeomorph fossil by University of Cambridge researchers. Rangeomorphs are considered to be ...

The energy invested in animal reproduction is as much as 10 times greater than previously estimated when the metabolic load of bearing and caring for offspring is accounted for, according to a new ...

A new study of 565 million-year-old fossils has identified how some of the first complex organisms on Earth -- possibly some of the first animals to exist -- reproduced, revealing the origins of our ...