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.

A 444 million-year-old arthropod fossil, discovered 25 years ago, has been identified. The fossil, named Keurbos susanae, was ...

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.