Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fossilization is a fickle process. Many fossils are fragmented, scattered (often broken) bones turned slowly to stone over ...

Now, fossils pulled from a single quarry in southern China are revealing what life looked like in the aftermath — and the ...

A rare and stunning discovery in New York State has unveiled a 450-million-year-old fossil that provides valuable insights ...

One of several Jianfengia fossil specimens: The animal's body plan is extremely simple, consisting of numerous identical segments. However, its head is like that of a more modern crustacean, with eyes ...

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 ...

A new study by Prof. Ariel Chipman of The Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem provides a novel model for understanding the development and evolution of ...

A team of researchers working in China’s Hunan province has unearthed more than 50,000 fossil specimens from one small quarry ...

The Cambrian period, often celebrated for the “Cambrian explosion”, marked a pivotal phase in the history of life when early arthropods emerged and rapidly diversified. These organisms not only ...

Researchers formally describe Helmetia expansa, offering new insights into its anatomy, behavior and evolutionary relationships. For over a century, the Cambrian arthropod Helmetia expansa remained a ...

"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 ...