A tiny critter that lived around 550 million years ago might represent the first known sign of right-handedness in ...
Fossils of Spriggina floundersi provide the earliest evidence of animals favouring one side of the body over the other – a ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fossils from Britain confirm Praearcturus gigas was a giant scorpion more than a meter long in the Early Devonian. (CREDIT: ...
The new eight-episode documentary series, “Surviving Earth,” travels 450 million years into the past. Utilizing cutting-edge CGI, the show visualizes the prehistoric landscape and its creatures, ...
A fossil that has puzzled scientists for over 150 years is possibly the largest scorpion known to exist. At about one meter long, the roughly 415-million-year-old Praearcturus gig ...
Just as important, it shows how reexamining old museum fossils with new comparisons and imaging tools can overturn long-standing assumptions. Research findings are available online in the journal ...