Imagine a creature so strange, so utterly unlike anything alive today, that even the world’s top scientists had no idea which ...

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 ...

Imagine a world teeming with life, but not as we know it—a planet bursting with creatures so bizarre they seem plucked ...

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