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.

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

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.

Liesch is the sole worker at the lab and takes on a plethora of responsibilities regarding the insects people bring in. His main task is identifying arthropods and educating people on entomology, or ...

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.