Some of the earliest members of the group were the radiodonts, whose members include famous species like Anomalocaris. While ...

But Mosura was different. Instead of the familiar streamlined body with flaps and claws, this little predator had something ...

A peculiar spiny fossil, once thought to represent one of the earliest mollusks, has now been conclusively reclassified by ...

The fossil, Shishania aculeata, was originally thought to be an early mollusc, a group that includes snails and clams.

The Cambrian Explosion saw an incredible diversity of life emerge, including many major animal groups alive today. Among them were the chordates, to which vertebrates (animals with backbones ...

Thousands flocked to Glynllifon’s marquee at the Caernarfon Food Festival, witnessing live shearing demonstrations and ...

Helmetia expansa was found to have walking legs and molting behavior, changing assumptions about its mobility and growth. For ...

This discovery pushed back the timeline for when animals first appeared on Earth. The Cambrian Explosion: A Burst of Life The Cambrian Explosion, which occurred around 541 million years ago ...

Scientists have identified the cells behind the bioclocks keeping time with tides in tiny marine organisms. The biological ...

A recent study shows that marine oxygen levels were crucial to the evolution of early Paleozoic trilobite body size, ...

Fossilization favors larger, protein-rich animals because they create oxygen-poor conditions that slow decay, helping explain ...