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Some of the earliest members of the group were the radiodonts, whose members include famous species like Anomalocaris. While ...
Paleontologists have discovered fossils of a 506 million-year-old tiny three-eyed predator nicknamed the “sea moth,” ...
A newly discovered arthropod fossil, Mosura fentoni, has preserved eyes, nerves, and blood vessels - a rare insight into ...
Scientists have identified the cells behind the bioclocks keeping time with tides in tiny marine organisms. The biological ...
Helmetia expansa was found to have walking legs and molting behavior, changing assumptions about its mobility and growth. For ...
NEW YORK - More than 500 million years ago a three-eyed predator chased prey through seas of the Cambrian Period. Once it ...
The Cambrian Explosion saw an incredible diversity ... external skeletons known as arthropods—the ancestors of insects, spiders, and crustaceans. These toughened-up creatures represented a ...
They arrived as part of what scientists known as the Cambrian Explosion and boasts a third eye - no doubt helpful for when the small crustacean was hunting in the Earth’s oceans of the time.
Researchers have discovered an ancient moth-like sea predator in a treasure trove of museum fossils in Canada. The ...