The "flaws" in the stone are fossils, evidence of sea creatures of stunning antiquity—some dating back nearly half a billion years, when the only existing animals lived in oceans. And what ...

have identified a new species of sea creature that crawled along the sea floor hundreds of millions of years ago. A tiny fossil is all that remains of the creature now known as Sollasina cthulhu ...

New research by a team at the Russian Academy of Sciences, Harvard University and the Sea Around Us initiative ... connect ...

3 min read During the Ordovician period, part of the Paleozoic ... tiny fossil teeth they left behind. The few complete fossils that have been found suggest they were finned, eel-like creatures ...

A “demon-toothed” sea creature with “large, well-spaced fangs” has been identified as a new species after a researcher found a fossilized partial skull in the New Mexico desert, officials said. The ...

The fossils encompass almost all the ancestors of existing species. Liu says that visitors will see how strange animals looked when life was confined to the seas over half a billion years ago.

Soft-bodied animals ... from the fossil record at the end of the Vendian, the period that closes the Proterozoic era. If they were wiped out by an extinction event, changes in sea level or ...

3 min read The Cambrian period, part of the Paleozoic era ... a wormlike creature that swam in middle Cambrian seas. Fossils found in the Burgess Shale of British Columbia show traces of a ...

Exactly which animals were affected ... be changed again in the future. The names Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic all describe the types of fossils that have been found relating to those ...

Deep beneath the ice-encrusted Arctic seas near the North Pole, atop an inactive deep-sea volcano, a community of sea sponges has survived for centuries by eating the fossils of ancient extinct worms.

"Named for its bizarre and dreamlike appearance, after the fossils were discovered in Yunnan, scientists revised the position of the creature's head," Liu adds. The Anomalocaris, a top Cambrian ...