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.

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 ...

The new study found the characteristics in Helmetia expansa differed from previous studies. It is said that these species had ...

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

Scientists on an icebreaker ship have captured a number of weird and wacky animals from Antarctica's ocean floor, including a ...

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 fossilized creature is one of the earliest ancestors of a group known as arthropods ... giving us a unique window into what life looked like in our distant past. Jackie (she/her) is a writer ...

Professor Lars Schmitz joins WIRED to guide us through a giant tree of life mapping the evolution of eyes in the animal kingdom: how they work, why they've taken the form they have, and the ...

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