Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A stunning 450-million-year-old fossil arthropod, perfectly preserved in fool's gold or iron pyrite, has been unearthed. Thanks to ...

Spiders are famous for the business end of their bodies, the sharp mouthparts that seize prey and help explain their ...

A team of researchers led by Associate Professor Luke Parry, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, have unveiled a spectacular new 450-million-year-old fossil arthropod (the group that ...

A new study, led by paleontologists at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) is helping resolve the evolution and ecology of Odaraia, a taco-shaped marine animal that lived during the Cambrian period.

Around half a billion years ago, in what is now the Yunnan Province of China, a tiny larva was trapped in mud. Hundreds of millions of years later, after the mud had long since become the black shales ...

Scientists propose that recently uncovered fossils may be the earliest evidence of behavioral “handedness” in animals.

Fossils usually leave us with bones turned to stone, the hard remains of creatures long gone. But every so often, nature offers something far rarer — a glimpse of soft tissue that survived for ...

Horseshoe crabs show up in the fossil record over 445 million years ago. Their blood is valuable in testing vaccines.

Dr. Greg Edgecombe, a co-author and fossil arthropod expert, said the animal complicates ideas about how early scorpions evolved. "The lines are blurred between arthropods living on the land and in ...

A 16-centimetre pincer fossil recovered in the United Kingdom has settled a question that sat unresolved for more than a ...

A new 450-million-year-old fossil arthropod, preserved in 3D by iron pyrite (fool’s gold), has been unveiled by scientists. The new species, Lomankus edgecombei, is distantly related to spiders, ...