The hunt for the world’s most ancient mammals descended into academic warfare in the seventies, researchers have discovered. The hunt for the world's most ancient mammals descended into academic ...

Paleontologists have identified fossils of an ancient species of bug that spent the past 450 million years covered in fool’s gold in central New York. The new species, Lomankus edgecombei, is a ...

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Long ago, an unlucky arthropod was buried alive in a submarine landslide. Its memory, however, would be immortalized in the most glorious of ways: 450 million years later, scientists have uncovered ...

A new 450-million-year-old fossil arthropod, preserved in 3D by iron pyrite (fool’s gold), has been unveiled by scientists. The new species, Lomankus edgecombei, is distantly related to spiders, ...

Please enable JavaScript to read this content. The last-ditch struggle of Tongtianlong limosus as it was mired in mud is seen in an undated artist reconstruction ...

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 ...