The Ediacara Biota are some of the strangest fossils ever found—soft-bodied organisms preserved in remarkable detail where ...

A recently discovered creature, Mosura fentoni, has stunned paleontologists with its bizarre, otherworldly features. Unveiled in the pages of Royal Society Open Science, this ancient arthropod sheds ...

Half a billion years ago, a shallow sea in what is now Siberia teemed with creatures that look more like science fiction than prehistory. Locked in that ancient seabed, scientists have now identified ...