Paleontologists recently discovered a 506-million-year-old “moth-like” predator that lurked in prehistoric Canada. In a press release from the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM), officials identified the ...

Half a billion years ago, a feisty predator flapped around the primordial seas, hooking prey into its mouth while breathing through long gills on its butt. Researchers recently discovered this 506 ...

As far as arachnids go, a creepy new species of assassin spider in Australia seems to be par for the course. However, these creatures used to be much bigger. Long before T-Rex debuted, ancient waters ...

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Scientists have discovered a bizarre fossilized creature that lived 465 million years ago with the content of its gut still preserved. In a study published in the journal Nature, a team of researchers ...

A remarkable fossilized larva has been discovered by scientists with its brain and guts still intact. The fossilized creature is one of the earliest ancestors of a group known as arthropods, which ...

An ancient buglike sea creature with a fan-shaped tail and a carapace that wrapped around its body swam upside down and looked like a taco — but this taco could bite back. Newfound fossils of the ...

Feast your eyes on a newly discovered species of extinct life, fortuitously fossilized in a mineral that turned the ancient arthropods gold. Well, gold in color. The fossilized remains belong to an ...

If you think finding a centipede in your living room is bad, get a load of its (very) distant cousin. Illustration: Lhéritier et al., Sci. Adv. 10, eadp6362 (2024) Millions of years before the ...

Ever wonder why teeth hurt? Blame it on a prehistoric armored fish. While the outer layer of our teeth is coated in hard enamel, it’s the inner layer, called dentine, that feels pain. Dentine carries ...

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