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

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

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

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 ...

Greg Edgecombe explains. "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 ...

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.