With eyes like searchlights, a mouth of razor-sharp plates, and grasping appendages ready to snatch anything in reach, this ...

The Cambrian sea was a very strange and alien place. Evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould described the animals that lived there in his book Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of ...

an animal that resembled modern elephants but with a unique feature—its tusks curved downwards instead of upwards. These strange tusks were likely used for stripping bark or digging roots.

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