A wave of new research is forcing paleontologists to reconsider a basic question about life on Earth: when did the first mass ...

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An international research team has made a notable discovery of fossil embryos belonging to Ecdysozoa, a diverse group of animals including roundworms, velvet worms, insects, and crabs. These fossils, ...

Fossils of a tiny sea creature that lived 525 million years ago have preserved something paleontologists rarely find: a brain. The specimen, a worm-like animal called Cardiodictyon catenulum recovered ...

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Palaeontologists are helping resolve the evolution and ecology of Odaraia, a taco-shaped marine animal that lived during the Cambrian period. Fossils reveal Odaraia had mandibles. Palaeontologists are ...

The “king” of the trilobites was snacking on whatever it could eat some 514 million years ago in the Cambrian era, even shelled creatures of its own species. By Rebecca Dzombak Cannibalism is common ...