The fish is thought to have chewed up and spit out some unlucky sea creatures, resulting in this unique fossil.

Among the many fossilized stars is a 26-meter-long Mamenchisaurus jingyanensis, a gigantic herbivore that lived around 150 million years ago and had one of the longest necks of its species. It is ...

This region contains fossils of Cambrian-era creatures dating back over 500 million years, adding to its allure. Scientists attribute the mountain’s unique form to freeze-thaw erosion ...

What’s 66-million-year-old vomit like? A lot more pleasant than the fresh stuff, says paleontologist Jesper Milan.

These tiny creatures, known as Lapworthella fasciculata, were the first tangible evidence of predation as one of the drivers of evolutionary innovation during the Cambrian period. This discovery ...

The ancient specimens, which were given surprising names by scientist, were found in Herefordshire, in a breakthrough that ...

The study, led by the American Museum of Natural History, reveals the dynamic between a small, shelled creature known as ... arms race during the Cambrian period, a time of rapid diversification ...

Humankind is the most unusual consequence of the Cambrian by far ... single-celled ocean creatures, viruses, etc. These are technical truths based on the most reasonable conclusions drawn from ...

Upon not finding the clam, you realize you have been outsmarted by a creature with no central nervous system. That makes perfect sense in the evolutionary scheme of things. Bivalves have been around ...

The shells are dotted with tiny perforations that some unknown marine creature must have made about 517 million years ago. The Cambrian Explosion was a phase in Earth’s history when many animal groups ...