A fossilized larva dating back over half a billion years has been discovered with its brain, digestive system, and nerve ...

A fossil uncovered by chance on a remote beach in northern England has revealed one of the most extraordinary creatures to ...

A WORLD-FAMOUS fossil nicknamed “Little Foot” may actually belong to a new humanlike species. The fossil was previously ...

A Mazon Creek fossil shows a horseshoe crab riddled with pits, likely from microbes or parasites, revealing a 300-million-year-old infection.

A half-billion-year-old fossil was found with intact internal organs, including its brain. 3D models revealed detailed anatomy; the fossil represents an early arthropod ancestor. Discovery aids ...

"The chances of finding one fossilized are practically zero," said one of the scientists who is researching the specimen Toria Sheffield joined the PEOPLE editorial staff in 2024. Her work as a writer ...

a, A complete specimen with antennae and limbs (USNM PAL 65510). b, Limbs of GSC 34695a showing various degrees of flexure and extension. The Burgess Shale in British Columbia is renowned for its ...

Spiders originated in the sea half a billion years ago, suggests a new study. Finely preserved brain features in a tiny marine arthropod fossil suggest that arachnids – spiders and their close kin – ...

Finely preserved brain features in a tiny marine arthropod fossil suggest that arachnids – spiders and their close kin – may have first evolved in the ocean rather than on land, say scientists. A new ...

(CNN) — The sensitive interior of human teeth might have originated from a seemingly unlikely place: sensory tissue in fish that were swimming in Earth’s oceans 465 million years ago. While our teeth ...