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

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The conclusions come from patterns tracked by scientists that point to several meteorite impacts through geological records.

That was the case for Luke Parry, a paleobiology professor at Oxford University, who this week announced he'd unearthed a ...

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

Like other Megacheirans, Lomankus is an example of an arthropod with an adaptable head and specialized appendages (a scorpion ...

Learn more about the time period that took place 488 to 443 million years ago. 3 min read During the Ordovician period, part of the Paleozoic era, a rich variety of marine life flourished in the ...

Scientists observed that all examined craters are situated within 30 degrees of the equator. This concentrated impact area, ...

Megacheirans like Lomankus were very diverse during the Cambrian Period (538-485 million years ago) but were thought to be ...

Life in the Ordovician period looked very different from today. The land was barren and devoid of life, but the sea was teeming. Squids and sea anemones, which can be seen in the illustration ...

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 ...