What paleontologists learned from fossils of a 3-eyed predator that lived 500 million years ago The unique features of Mosura fentoni astounded paleontologists.

Known as Mosura fentoni, this creature is a worthy addition to the bizarre bestiary preserved in the Burgess Shale, a substantial fossil deposit in the Canadian Rockies.

The fossil was found in the Soom Shale, a band of silts and clays at a location 250 miles north of Cape Town in South Africa. These strata were laid down on the seafloor over 440 million years ago at ...

A 444 million-year-old arthropod fossil, discovered 25 years ago, has been identified. The fossil, named Keurbos susanae, was found in South Africa's Soom Shale. Unusually, it's preserved inside ...

Discovered 25 years ago, a 444-million-year-old marine arthropod fossil stumped paleontologists, as they couldn’t identify its exact species. Sarah Gabbot, who originally discovered the specimen ...

It was during this tumultuous biological period, that a certain arthropod met its end, eventually becoming entombed and fossilized in Soom Shale—a band of silts and clays located 250 miles north ...

A new species of primitive arthropod dating back 444 million years has been discovered in the Soom Shale, a site north of Cape Town in South Africa. The baffling specimen is so bizarre that its exact ...

They unearthed the fossil on Soom Shale, a band of silt and clay about 250 miles north of Cape Town, South Africa where similar artifacts are often found.

The fossil was located on Soom Shale, a band of silts and clays about 250 miles north of Cape Town, South Africa. At the time the strata was laid down, a "devastating" glaciation had wiped out about ...

The fossil was located on Soom Shale, a band of silts and clays about 250 miles north of Cape Town, South Africa.