Describing Anomalocaris to someone who is unfamiliar with the fossil species is a difficult task. No living creature is quite like it. Sometimes this 505 million year old invertebrate has been called ...

Ancient brain Spectacular fossils unearthed in China show detailed brain structures of a bizarre group of sea creatures that were the top predators more than half a billion years ago. The discovery of ...

The world's earliest known large predators shoved prey into their mouths using long spiny limbs protruding from their heads and grew larger than previously thought, suggests a new fossil recently ...

Bizarre shrimp-like monsters that were the world's largest predators for millions of years grew even larger and survived much longer than thought, scientists find. The creatures, known as ...

It's hard to believe that a prehistoric sea creature the size of Shaquille O'Neal could teach us anything about a modern dust mite. But a 7-foot-long, 480-million-year-old marine animal called an ...

A 480-million-year-old fossil is giving paleontologists new insights into a sea-monster-like creature called an anomalocaridid, which is an ancestor of modern-day arthropods such as lobsters and ...

A spectacularly well-preserved sea monster that once prowled the oceans during the Cambrian Period has been unearthed in China. The 520-million-year-old creature, one of the first predators of its day ...

Researchers on Wednesday described fossilized remains unearthed in China showing in fine detail the brain structures of a bizarre group of sea creatures that were the top predators more than half a ...

Early hunter The world's earliest known large predators shoved prey into their mouths using long spiny limbs protruding from their heads, suggests a new fossil recently discovered in Morocco. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A side-by-side comparison reveals the similarity between the brain of a living onychophoran (L) and that of the anomalocaridid ...