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

Most of what we know about prehistoric life comes from bits and pieces—bones, teeth, impressions in rock. However, every now ...

In South Africa's Karoo region, a university student's exploration led to the discovery of Peripatopsis barnardi, a new ...

A Cambrian fossil once thought to be a mollusk ancestor is now identified as a chancelloriid relative, reshaping ideas about ...

"Dire wolves" created by Colossal Biosciences were pegged as "the first animals in history to be brought back from extinction." But that all depends on your definition of de-extinction — and ...

Weird animals can be found in every nook and cranny of our planet. While some areas of the world may have a few more unique animals than others—looking at you, Australia—some unusual species probably ...

While we may be familiar with popular animals like lions, dolphins, and pandas, there exists a hidden world of extraordinary beings that often go unnoticed. From the depths of the ocean to the remote ...

canadensis was one of the largest animals to live 541 million ... temperatures and tectonic changes of the Cambrian. Roughly translating to “weird shrimp from Canada” in Latin, A.

Gould, such as ‘weird wonders’ and the decreasing disparity through Phanerozoic ... With this developing method, we are parsing each sentence spoken by the Cambrian animals during their earliest ...

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As well as apparently setting the record straight, the findings again change what we know about the evolution of Bryozoans. To date they're the only fossilized animals not to be around during the ...

Nearly all major animal groups first appear in the fossil record between 541 and 520 million years ago during an evolutionary event known as the Cambrian explosion. Until two years ago ...