A remarkably well-preserved fossil is challenging what scientists thought they knew about the origins of spiders and their ...

In a twist worthy of a detective novel, a long-misidentified fossil at Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ) has ...

Over 500 million years ago, a small marine creature swam through Cambrian waters. Its name: Mollisonia symmetrica. Long ...

The tiny 'backward' brain of an ancient sea creature hints that spider ancestors might have gotten their start in the ocean.

Finely preserved brain features in a tiny marine arthropod fossil suggest that arachnids – spiders and their close kin – may ...

Finely preserved brain features in a tiny marine arthropod fossil suggest that arachnids – spiders and their close kin – may have first evolved in the ocean rather than on land, say scientists.

Finely preserved brain features in a tiny fossil suggest that spiders and their kin may have first evolved in the ocean ...

A 500-million-year-old sea creature called Mollisonia shared a similar brain structure to modern spiders, suggesting that ...

LOS GATOS, CA – Cambrian Works announces it has been selected by SpaceWERX for a SBIR Phase II in the amount of $1,249,906.00 focused on Tactical Space Payload for Inertial De-spin Efficient ...

Crustaceans, a small but mighty animal classification group of invertebrates, can be found scuttling across the ocean floor, scavenging for their next snack. Lobster, shrimp, crab, and crayfish ...

A strange tiny species of crustacean has challenged the way we think about natural selection and evolution. This microscopic animal, known as a water flea or Daphnia pulex, generates genetic ...