Ancient Sea Creature Pushes Back Origins of Spider Fangs to 518 Million Years Ago
Urokodia aequalis, an early Cambrian marine predator from the Chengjiang biota of China, preserves the earliest known evidence…
Earth’s Earliest Animals May Have Thrived Too Easily to Evolve
Fossils from some of the oldest-known animals on Earth, dating from 574 million years ago (Ediacaran period), suggest…
Complex Colonial Life Was Already Thriving during Cambrian Explosion
Tiny colonial animals called bryozoans were long thought to have appeared tens of millions of years after the…
Forgotten Fossil Helps Rewrite Part Of Animal Evolution
Depiction of Magnicornaspis garwoodi gen. et sp. nov. USNM PAL 801575. A Complete specimen. Boxes with solid lines…
490-Million-Year-Old Arthropod Fossil Fills Puzzling Gap in Fossil Record
A new species of corcoraniid arthropod that lived during the Furongian epoch, between 497 and 487 million years…
Over 500 Million Years Ago, Early Vertebrates Had Four Eyes That Could See 360 Degrees
General morphology of the lateral eyes and pineal complex with their preserved melanosomes in two species of Myllokunmingidae…