Around half a billion years ago, in what is now the Yunnan Province of China, a tiny larva was trapped in mud. Hundreds of millions of years later, after the mud had long since become the black shales ...

Feast your eyes on a newly discovered species of extinct life, fortuitously fossilized in a mineral that turned the ancient arthropods gold. Well, gold in color. The fossilized remains belong to an ...

A recently discovered creature, Mosura fentoni, has stunned paleontologists with its bizarre, otherworldly features. Unveiled in the pages of Royal Society Open Science, this ancient arthropod sheds ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Scientists have discovered a bizarre fossilized creature that lived 465 ...

An ancient buglike sea creature with a fan-shaped tail and a carapace that wrapped around its body swam upside down and looked like a taco — but this taco could bite back. Newfound fossils of the ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Paleontologists have revealed a "remarkable" prehistoric creature that ...