Around half a billion years ago, in what is now the Yunnan Province of China, a tiny larva was trapped in mud. Hundreds of millions of years later, after the mud had long since become the black shales ...

A Youti yuanshi fossil shows the role fledgling nervous systems played in the evolution of arthropods. Sometimes daydreams turn into reality. As an undergrad, Martin Smith remembers attending a ...

Researchers have discovered how the brain of the largest animal group evolved after finding the remains of a microscopic, worm-like creature that lived half a billion years ago. The creature died ...

View post: Heavy Warning Issued for Hawaii as 10 Inches of Snow, 60 mph Winds Emerge: 'Travel Could Be Very Difficult to Impossible' A half-billion-year-old fossil was found with intact internal ...

If you think finding a needle in a haystack sounds challenging, try searching for fossils the size of fingernail clippings in massive slabs of rock. But that's just what a team of scientists is doing ...

The larva fossil, called Youti yuanshi, discovered in China, belongs to an early arthropod. (Natural History Museum/ © Smith et al. 2024/CC-BY 4.0) A 520-million ...

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The fossil, called Cretosabethes primaevus, shared traits with modern mosquitoes. Scientists think it lived in small water pools in tree hollows or leaf axils during the Cretaceous period.