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

A scientific discovery has brought a 520-million-year-old larva back to life in ways previously thought impossible. For the ...

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

A 444 million-year-old arthropod fossil, discovered 25 years ago, has been identified. The fossil, named Keurbos susanae, was ...

For over a century, the Cambrian arthropod Helmetia expansa remained a mystery. Discovered by paleontologist Charles ...

Gabbott finally had some answers about this mysterious fossil. According to the study, arthropods make up about 85 percent of the animals on Earth and include lobsters, shrimp, centipedes, and spiders ...

A 444 million-year-old fossil unearthed in South Africa details a new species of arthropod that was fossilized inside-out, according to the study published in the journal Palaeontology last week.

For over a century, scientists have been puzzled by a mysterious fossil called Helmetia expansa, an ancient arthropod from ...

The fossil, dated to about 444 million years ago, contained a new species of arthropod that fossilized inside-out, according to a paper published in the journal Palaeontology last week.

Focused on Cambrian fossils, the study reanimates a species long trapped in the pages of forgotten paleontology.

"The cyclidans have been compared to many different arthropods, including trilobites, horseshoe crabs, true crabs and copepods," Greg explains. "In 1997, well-preserved fossils showed that they ...

In a new study published in the Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, Harvard researchers in the Department of Organismic and ...