The new study found the characteristics in Helmetia expansa differed from previous studies. It is said that these species had ...

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

The rich fossil repository known as the Burgess Shale was first discovered a century ago. Siobhan Roberts The fossil-hunting expedition began with a lung-busting hike, accompanied by an incessant ...

For over a century, the Cambrian arthropod Helmetia expansa remained a mystery. Discovered by paleontologist Charles Doolittle Walcott in 1918, it was ...

A majority of species in the animal kingdom use mandibles for eating, and this bright idea might’ve originated with the Cambrian arthropod Odaraia alata. A new study led by scientists at the ...

Fossils from this era, such as those in the Burgess Shale, reveal a wide array of complex organisms, many representing early ancestors of current species.

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Can a world-renowned expert in evolution be a top supporter of the Christian worldview? As a man of faith, Simon Conway Morris, a British paleontologist and professor of evolutionary paleobiology at ...

Richard Fortey found his first trilobite aged just 14, after braving gorse bushes to break rocks on St David's Peninsula, the westernmost tip of Wales. This first encounter with a trilobite – which ...

The fossil was found in the Soom Shale, a band of silts and clays at a location 250 miles north of Cape Town in South Africa.