More than 500 million years before “The Simpsons” introduced us to Blinky, a fish with an extra eye swimming through ...

For starters, it had three eyes — two stalked ones and a central median eye that probably helped it navigate the dim Cambrian seas. Its front limbs were armed with curved, spiny claws ...

No animal alive today resembles Mosura fentoni. It had two jointed claws and a third eye in the centre of its head.

Half a billion years ago, a feisty predator flapped around the primordial seas, hooking prey into its mouth while breathing ...

A newly discovered arthropod fossil, Mosura fentoni, has preserved eyes, nerves, and blood vessels - a rare insight into early arthropods.

A newly described species from the Burgess Shale had three eyes, clawed limbs, and a tail full of gills—plus internal organs preserved in stunning detail.

These features place it in the radiodont group, an extinct line of ancient sea predators that includes the more famous Anomalocaris canadensis, a giant of the Cambrian seas. Fossil specimen of Mosura ...

Anomalocaris was one of the first predators in the Cambrian seas. It could grow up to a metre long and had great vision and fast limbs, which helped it hunt well. At first, it was speculated it ...

A major fossil site bearing witness to the Cambrian explosion and providing ... strange animals looked when life was confined to the seas over half a billion years ago. "One of the star exhibits ...

The Grand Canyon may rewrite the textbooks on the Cambrian Explosion—a key turning ... the classic geological model for the advance of seas across continents—a phenomenon dubbed "marine ...

Something dramatic happened about 500 million years ago called the Cambrian "explosion," during ... for marine transgression (advance of the seas across the continents) developed 50 years ago ...