A distant relative of spiders and scorpions is the new namesake of a Natural History Museum scientist.
A new study suggests that extreme temperatures could lead to a mass extinction event, ending the reign of humans and mammals ...
This iconic body shape has remained virtually unchanged since the Ordovician period ... This is the lamprey — a living fossil from an era before fish developed jaws and a creature whose ...
Coelacanths are strange fish that are currently only known from two species found along the East African coast and in ...
In 1939, Smith named the species Latimeria chalumnae, also known as gombessa. Since then, this species, found along the east ...
Like other Megacheirans, Lomankus is an example of an arthropod with an adaptable head and specialized appendages (a scorpion ...
Paleontologists have identified fossils of an ancient species of bug that spent the past 450 million years covered in fool's ...
Researchers have uncovered a golden-colored, 450-million-year-old fossil of a new arthropod species, preserved in fool’s gold ...
A creature that scuttled along the seafloor 450 million years ago has been preserved in a rare and striking fossil that ...