Paleontologists have discovered that a three-eyed sea moth predator lived on Earth half a billion years ago with evidence found in one of the most fossil-rich areas of the world. The fossils of Mosura ...

With the help of more than five dozen fossils, paleontologists have uncovered a tiny three-eyed predator nicknamed the “sea moth” that swam in Earth’s oceans 506 million years ago. Mosura fentoni, as ...

A "remarkable" three-eyed predator nicknamed the "sea-moth" that lived 506 million years ago has been identified. The fossilized remains of the unusual creature, called Mosura fentoni, were discovered ...

A new study, led by palaeontologists at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) is helping resolve the evolution and ecology of Odaraia, a taco-shaped marine animal that lived during the Cambrian period.

It was as if the fossil was grinning at us at the secrets it had been hiding,” said Dr. Martin Smith, but he remembered the time when a 500-million-year-old riddle all at once became clear.

Cambrian Period creatures known as sea moths seemed alien because of their additional eye, but a study finds anatomical features more in line with modern animals. An artist’s impression of Mosura ...

Palaeontologists are helping resolve the evolution and ecology of Odaraia, a taco-shaped marine animal that lived during the Cambrian period. Fossils reveal Odaraia had mandibles. Palaeontologists are ...

The deposit contains more than 50 unknown species from the Cambrian Explosion. This is an Inside Science story. (Inside Science) -- A new trove of outstandingly preserved fossils in China from the ...