For over a century, the Cambrian arthropod Helmetia expansa remained a mystery. Discovered by paleontologist Charles ...

In a new study published in the Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, Harvard researchers in the Department of Organismic and ...

With segmented legs emerging from underneath rounded shells, cyclidans looked not unlike an underwater beetle ... including trilobites, horseshoe crabs, true crabs and copepods," Greg explains. "In ...

While they're often overshadowed by more successful relatives like the trilobites ... underwater beetle. Some of the earliest species were just a few millimeters in size and form fossils that ...

What fascinated him most was their visual system, the first in the fossil record to be really well preserved. The eyes of some trilobites contained more than 15,000 calcite lenses; they looked ...

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google maps A college professor in New Jersey claims that his 380 million-year-old fossils ended up in a landfill due to negligence from his university, per a civil complaint. Martin Becker ...

Paleontologists stumbled upon several intact F. brocksi fossils while exploring a research site known as McGraths Flat near the town of Gulgong. After coming up empty at a nearby fossil site ...

Credit: Dawid A. Iurino, edited Paleontologists have unveiled a 30,000-year-old vulture fossil in Italy, preserved in volcanic ash, showcasing microscopic feather details through the formation of ...

A William Paterson University professor says school officials lost his rare fossil collection and that the artifacts were dumped in a landfill. Now he’s suing. Martin Becker, an environmental science ...

Travelers can get their hands dirty and track down ancient dinosaur fossils, jewels and more treasures through excursions across the country. Families planning a visit to Mantua, New Jersey ...

A William Paterson University professor has filed a lawsuit claiming his irreplaceable collection of 380 million-year-old fossils was lost by college officials and ended up in a landfill.