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 ...

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 ...

Scientists have discovered prehistoric insects preserved in amber for the first time in South America, providing a fresh ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. About 465 million years ago, a now extinct arthropod called a ...

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 ...

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 ...

The arthropod fossil used to describe a new species (left) and CT scans of the specimen (right) Luke Parry (photograph), Yu Liu, Ruixin Ran (3D models). Edited by Emily Lankiewicz Long ago, an unlucky ...

An unusual fossil brain suggests that the ancestors of spiders and other arachnids may have once scuttled around the sea, rather than on land as was long thought, a new study finds. "It is still ...

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 ...

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. An ancient buglike ...

Paleontologists have long suspected that our teeth evolved from bumpy structures called odontodes on the exoskeletons of prehistoric fish—but they didn’t understand exactly what these bumps were used ...