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

Imagine the thrill of peering into deep time, only to find a fossil within a fossil — a silent, stone-etched echo of life ...

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

Paleontologists in England discovered the existence of a new marine species that roamed the Earth before the dinosaurs and nicknamed the headless arthropod “Sue” after one of their mothers ...

“And yet her durable carapace, legs and head are missing — lost to decay over 440 million years ago.” “We are now sure she was a primitive marine arthropod but her precise evolutionary relationships ...

And yet her durable carapace, legs, and head are missing – lost to decay over 440 million years ago,” Gabbott said in a press release. “We are now sure she was a primitive marine arthropod, but her ...

Aboard the RSV Nuyina, a team of Australian researchers is exploring the Southern Ocean. Their mission is to study the ...

A study from the University of Leicester describes a newly identified fossil species that is 444 million years old, with its ...

Researchers are certain it is a primitive marine arthropod, but the precise evolutionary relationships remain "frustratingly elusive," Gabbott said. The fossil was located on Soom Shale ...