The Galeón Andalucía, a replica of a 16th-century galleon, is in Caernarfon from 31 May to 8 June, is open for public visits.

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 ...

Teeth are good for chewing and biting, but they are also sensitive – and that may have been their original function hundreds of millions of years ago ...

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 ... These invertebrates thrived during the Cambrian period (541 million to ...

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

but it could be related to how or where it lived—maybe hanging out in low-oxygen environments in the lively Cambrian seas, or leading an especially active lifestyle. Its unique shape ...

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 ...