Before the oldest dinosaur, before animals or even plants had expanded onto dry land, ancient relatives of starfish called ...

A rare 450-million-year-old fossil with preserved soft tissue is revealing how some of Earth's earliest reef animals lived ...

"Preservation like this is truly one in a million." For years, a small Canadian museum that was started by amateur ...

We see evolution all around us, constantly, in every living thing. Yet in the deep oceans we find a number of "living fossils" reminiscent of creatures from prehistoric times. In his 1859 book On the ...

Scientists think gigantic crinoids would cling to logs with anchor-like stems, creating a floating raft that likely supported a host of other species and enabled their long-distance transport across ...

Japanese researchers recently set a record with the deepest in-situ observation of a criniod. In the words of the authors, Previous records of stalked crinoids from hadal depths (exceeding 6000 m) are ...

A new discovery suggests why one relationship evolved in appearance and how one parasite turned more aggressive but also protective toward its host over millions of years. Finding parasites on fossils ...

We see evolution all around us, constantly, in every living thing. Yet in the deep oceans we find a number of “living fossils” reminiscent of creatures from prehistoric times. In his 1859 book On the ...