About 460 million years ago, bizarre soft-bodied creatures puttered through the depths of an ocean that covered what is now Wales. They propelled themselves with undulating, rounded flaps that waved ...

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The summit pyramid of Mount Everest, the highest point on Earth, is built from the remains of creatures that lived on an ancient seafloor roughly 470 million years ago. Limestone near the peak ...

Learn how a 500-million-year-old arthropod fossil from Québec is helping scientists rethink the Furongian gap and the hidden diversity of late Cambrian life.

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Plan an Ohio treasure-hunting trip with fossils, beach glass, scenic stops, and small discoveries that keep the route ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

New research published in BMC Biology helps to fill in questions about the so-called "Furongian gap" from about 497 million to 485 million years ago, when paleontologists previously thought there were ...

CINCINNATI — Visitors to the Cincinnati Museum Center can now experience a new, permanent exhibit offering a peek into a world that existed 450 million years ago. The exhibit addition, Ancient Worlds ...