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

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

Researchers formally describe Helmetia expansa, offering new insights into its anatomy, behavior and evolutionary relationships.

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For over a century, the Cambrian arthropod Helmetia expansa remained a mystery. Discovered by paleontologist Charles Doolittle Walcott in 1918, it was ...

Paleontologists in England discovered the existence of a new marine species that roamed the Earth before the dinosaurs and ...

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Paleontologists are marveling over a unique fossil of a specimen that pre-dated the dinosaurs, according to new research.