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

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

For years, a mysterious fossil specimen defied categorization, until one paleontologist made a surprising discovery.

"Most of the phyla we know today we can see already in the Cambrian and the animals of the Burgess Shale," said Caron. But the fossils still look very strange. "They certainly show evidence of ...

A remarkable fossilized larva has been discovered by scientists with its brain and guts still intact. The fossilized creature ...

providing new insights into the evolutionary history of these animals. For over a century, the Cambrian arthropod Helmetia expansa remained a mystery. Discovered by paleontologist Charles ...

"Derek Briggs and I were the first people to take a kind of cladistic and cold-eyed look at the way these weird Cambrian animals interrelated. The idea they included many new phyla was not supported, ...

Let’s explore six strange fossils that have made scientists ... This creature lived around 500 million years ago during the Cambrian period, and its bizarre features challenge the typical view of ...

When you think of predators, you likely imagine big animals with sharp claws or teeth, like tigers or sharks. Over 100 ...

A study from the University of Leicester describes a newly identified fossil species that is 444 million years old, with its ...