This week on Break It Down: a quantum cat experiment breaks a record for surviving over 23 minutes, Voyager 1 encountered a ...

A new 450-million-year-old arthropod fossil, Lomankus edgecombei, has been uncovered in New York, revealing crucial ...

The conclusions come from patterns tracked by scientists that point to several meteorite impacts through geological records.

That was the case for Luke Parry, a paleobiology professor at Oxford University, who this week announced he'd unearthed a ...

Scientists observed that all examined craters are situated within 30 degrees of the equator. This concentrated impact area, ...

Like other Megacheirans, Lomankus is an example of an arthropod with an adaptable head and specialized appendages (a scorpion ...

Learn more about the time period that took place 488 to 443 million years ago. 3 min read During the Ordovician period, part of the Paleozoic era, a rich variety of marine life flourished in the ...

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

Megacheirans like Lomankus were very diverse during the Cambrian Period (538-485 million years ago) but were thought to be ...

The fossils that these layers contain are world-famous for the details that they record about life on Earth during the Late Ordovician Period. Besides preserving pieces of Earth's history, limestone ...

A creature that scuttled along the seafloor 450 million years ago has been preserved in a rare and striking fossil that ...

Paleontologists have identified fossils of an ancient species of bug that spent the past 450 million years covered in fool's ...