Chinese scientists' latest findings in ancient seabed community illustrate a biological mechanism capable of shaping community structure, operating beyond passive environmental constraints or initial larval settlement preferences, and highlight the potential for subtle anatomical features to exert significant ecological influence in deep time, according to a research article published on Monday by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), a leading scientific journal in the world.

Eukaryotes organized into multicellular forms 1.6 billion years ago

BEIJING, Jan. 25 (Xinhua) -- 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.