For years, a mysterious fossil specimen defied categorization, until one paleontologist made a surprising discovery.

A scientific discovery has brought a 520-million-year-old larva back to life in ways previously thought impossible. For the ...

A remarkable fossilized larva has been discovered by scientists with its brain and guts still intact. The fossilized creature ...

Focused on Cambrian fossils, the study reanimates a species long trapped in the pages of forgotten paleontology.

Paleontologists in England discovered the existence of a new marine species that roamed the Earth before the dinosaurs and ...

"Molting is the period of an arthropod's life when it's most vulnerable," he says. "While its soft shell is exposed, the animal is in danger from predators or, in some cases, even hungry cannibals ...

“We are now sure she was a primitive marine arthropod, but her precise evolutionary relationships remain frustratingly elusive.” Sarah Gabbott, the study’s lead author and a professor in the School of ...

For over a century, the Cambrian arthropod Helmetia expansa remained a mystery. Discovered by paleontologist Charles Doolittle Walcott in 1918, it was initially classified as a crustacean.

The Cambrian Explosion saw an incredible diversity of life emerge, including many major ... external skeletons known as arthropods—the ancestors of insects, spiders, and crustaceans.

Paleontologists are marveling over the unique fossil of a marine species that predated the dinosaurs, according to new ...