Coelacanths are strange fish that are currently only known from two species found along the East African coast and in ...

Fossils hidden for 490 million years were uncovered by researchers ... Tuff-bearing upper Cambrian to lowermost Ordovician strata on Ko Tarutao island, Satun province, southernmost peninsular Thailand ...

Uncover the golden fossil of Lomankus edgecombei, a 450-million-year-old arthropod, offering rare insights into ancient ...

Million-Year-Old Giant Fish Remains Discovered in Australia, Experts Call It ‘Living Fossil' The coelacanth, often referred ...

Nov. 7, 2024 — Researchers have used ancient DNA to challenge long-held interpretations of the people of Pompeii. Contrary to physical appearances, the DNA evidence revealed unexpected ...

A distant relative of spiders and scorpions is the new namesake of a Natural History Museum scientist.

A new 450-million-year-old fossil arthropod ... but were thought to be largely extinct by the Ordovician Period (485-443 million years ago). This discovery offers important new clues towards ...

A creature that scuttled along the seafloor 450 million years ago has been preserved in a rare and striking fossil that ...

A shimmering ancient fossil unearthed in New York state looks ... The creature lived on the ocean floor during the Ordovician Period (485 million to 444 million years ago) at a time when life ...

Ancient “gold” bug fossils, infused with pyrite, have been identified as a new species of arthropod by a team of researchers.

They had mostly gone extinct by the Ordovician Period (485-443 million years ago). [Related: A three-eyed organism roamed the seas half a billion years ago.] The Lomankus fossil was found at the ...

Paleontologists believe Megacheirans were largely extinct by the beginning of the Ordovician Period. The new Lomankus fossils also have several ties to Yale’s paleontological efforts, going back more ...