A spiky worm with legs like noodles. A giant predator that looks like a cross between a walrus and a housefly. Many animals that evolved during the Cambrian period, 541 million to 485 million ...

When complex life emerged on the ancient Earth, it looked like nothing we would recognise today. At the south-eastern tip of Newfoundland, rugged cliffs rise imposingly above the sea. The craggy ...

Ancient sea creature looked like a wine glass, died alone By Brandon Specktor , Live Science Contributor LiveScience Published October 19, 2017 10:45am EDT | Updated October 19, 2017 10:52am EDT ...

A new filter-feeding giant that trolled the Cambrian seas has been unearthed in Greenland. The species, dubbed Tamisiocaris borealis, used large, bristly appendages on its body to rake in tiny ...

As the world celebrates Earth Day, researchers at the University of Puerto Rico's Planetary Habitability Laboratory marked the occasion with a look back - make that a long look back. 500 million ...

Think our night sky is beautiful? Well, yeah, sure. But it would have been even more gorgeous if our sun wasn't one of the Milky Way's youngest. [Do stars have a sound? A new study says they might ...

It looks like a space alien, or maybe a very deformed clam. But really, it's a re-creation of a 500-million-year-old life-form. New images show a sculpture of Agnostus pisiformis, a now-extinct ...

New 'Dune'-like Selkirkia worm species rewrites ancient history : Short Wave 500 million years ago, the world was a very different place. During this period of time, known as the Cambrian period ...

An ancient sea animal that looked like a flower had its anus right next to its mouth, a new fossil study finds. The research reveals that this odd marine creature was likely an ancestor of a group ...

A new fossil relative of the starfish has turned up in 500 million-year-old sediments of the mountains in Morocco. "It's standing upright like a candle, or large cigar sticking out of the sediment ...

In 2013, Darroch found vast fields of what looked remarkably like burrows made in the Nama sediment – signs that these younger animals were foraging, and churning up the seafloor.