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

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 ...

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

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.

Researchers are certain it is a primitive marine arthropod, but the precise evolutionary ... how she fits into the evolutionary tree of life," according to the researchers.

When & where did the arthropod become a fossil? During the first of the five mass extinctions in the planet's history, the Late Ordovician mass extinction wiped out nearly 85% of all life.

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.