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

A remarkable fossilized larva has been discovered by scientists with its brain and guts still intact. The fossilized creature ...

For over a century, the Cambrian arthropod Helmetia expansa remained a mystery. Discovered by paleontologist Charles ...

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

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

For over a century, scientists have been puzzled by a mysterious fossil called Helmetia expansa, an ancient arthropod from ...

A 444 million-year-old fossil unearthed in South Africa details a new species of arthropod that was fossilized inside-out, according to the study published in the journal Palaeontology last week.

A new study, led by paleontologists at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) is helping resolve the evolution and ecology of Odaraia, a taco-shaped marine animal that lived during the Cambrian period.

Today about 85% of animals on Earth are arthropods, and they include shrimps, lobsters, spiders, mites, millipedes and centipedes. They have an excellent fossil record stretching back over 500 ...

The fossil, found 250 miles (402 kilometers) north of Cape Town in South Africa, is a new species of multisegmented arthropod that may have lived in oxygen-poor waters, according to the study ...