Dec 10, 2014 by News Staff

A multinational team of paleontologists headed by Dr Thomas Harvey from the University of Leicester, UK, has described a strange balloon-shaped animal...

Jul 17, 2014 by News Staff

Paleontologists led by Dr Nicholas Strausfeld from the University of Arizona’s Center for Insect Science have discovered the fossilized remains of...

Jun 13, 2014 by News Staff

Several fossil specimens of a Cambrian fish called Metaspriggina walcotti recently discovered in Canada shed new light on the development of the earliest...

Apr 11, 2014 by News Staff

A study led by Prof Luis Buatois from the University of Saskatchewan provides new evidence to understand the development of life at Ediacaran-Cambrian...

Apr 9, 2014 by News Staff

Paleontologists from China, the United States and United Kingdom have discovered a 3-inch-long fossil of a prehistoric shrimp-like animal with the earliest...

Feb 17, 2014 by News Staff

A new study published in the journal Geology suggests extinct arthropods known as trilobites were likely able to venture into very shallow water of the...

Oct 17, 2013 by News Staff

Paleontologists have found a well-preserved fossil of a megacheiran – distant relative of scorpions and spiders – that lived in Cambrian seas...

May 17, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

Dr David Legg, a paleontologist with the Department of Earth Science and Engineering at Imperial College London, has discovered an ancient creature with...

Oct 12, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

According to an international team of paleontologists, a Cambrian fossil arthropod found in China is the earliest known fossil to show a brain. This image...

Aug 23, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

University of Toronto graduate student Martin Smith has for the first time reconstructed mouthparts of two mollusk-like animals Odontogriphus and Wiwaxia...