Bryozoans are tiny, filter-feeding colonial invertebrates that thrive in the world's oceans today, yet for decades their ...

Tiny honeycomb-like colonies from southern China have opened a long-running gap in the story of animal life. For decades, ...

Rudy Lerosey-Aubril is a paleontologist who likes to relax by cleaning - cleaning fossils. RUDY LEROSEY-AUBRIL: I listen to radio. I listen to podcast and this sort of thing. And it's just a moment, ...

A remarkable fossil hidden in a museum collection for decades is helping scientists rethink one of the biggest mysteries in ...

Roughly 500 million years ago, a strange event in the evolution of life on Earth seems to have taken place. The known fossil ...

A new species of chiton — a tiny, armored marine mollusk from a lineage roughly 500 million years old — has been identified off the coast of South Korea after routine genetic analysis revealed it was ...

What started as routine fossil cleaning turned into a major scientific surprise when researchers uncovered a tiny claw in a 500-million-year-old specimen where no claw should exist. That detail ...

Pincers found on a tiny fossil that lived 500 million years ago could change how scientists understand the origin of spiders. Rudy Lerosey-Aubril is a paleontologist who likes to relax by cleaning - ...