Credit: Zhang Xiguang A Cambrian fossil once thought to be a mollusk ancestor is now identified as a chancelloriid relative, reshaping ideas about early animal evolution. A strange and spiny fossil, ...

The idea of resurrecting extinct organisms is alluring; I would love to see one of the strange Cambrian animals like Hallucigenia and Opabinia, feathered dinosaurs, the giant hornless rhino ...

It had three eyes, some weird appendages in front ... enough to be hunted by many bigger animals. But it was nimble and fierce in its own right. The Cambrian period, around 541 to 485 million ...

On this episode of The List Show, host and editor-in-chief of Mental Floss Erin McCarthy discusses some weird animal evolutions, from the long legs of the jerboa to basically everything about the ...

There's sensitive armor in these arthropods. This explains the confusion with these early Cambrian animals. People thought that this was the earliest vertebrate, but it actually was an arthropod." ...

Mosura fentoni instead demonstrates an early diversification of predation strategies during the Cambrian. Several specimens come from new excavations conducted in Kootenay National Park. Their ...

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There’s sensitive armor in these arthropods. This explains the confusion with these early Cambrian animals. People thought that this was the earliest vertebrate, but it actually was an arthropod.” ...

A new study from the University of Chicago suggests our sensitive teeth may be an evolutionary leftover that once helped our fishy ancestors sense their surroundings. Researchers studied modern fish ...

It was while he was studying fossils at the Banff Centre that Nasca developed an interest in the Mistaken Point fossils of ...