Researchers have uncovered a golden-colored, 450-million-year-old fossil of a new arthropod species, preserved in fool’s gold ...

The species, Lomankus edgecombei, was discovered at New York's Beecher's Trilobite Bed, a site famous for exceptional ...

A distant relative of spiders and scorpions is the new namesake of a Natural History Museum scientist.

A shimmering ancient fossil unearthed in New York state looks like a piece of finely crafted jewelry, but it’s also a portal ...

“Fossils like this tell us a great deal about what life on Earth looked like ... megacheirans lived during the Cambrian ...

A new study suggests that extreme temperatures could lead to a mass extinction event, ending the reign of humans and mammals ...

Some "extremely rare" fossils that date back 450 million years have revealed a new-to-science species. They were retrieved from a famous fossil site in New York State, USA – and best of all? They're ...

It’s possible that the Ordovician ... was the following period’s expansion of those previous themes, everything from algae to early clams and fish evolving into new forms and creating ...

The divots were created at a time when animals in the seas were taking on a broad array of new forms ... and lost its ring, life was going through an incredible evolutionary burst. Paleontologists ...

Ancient “gold” bug fossils, infused with pyrite, have been identified as a new species of arthropod by a team of researchers.