A recently discovered creature, Mosura fentoni, has stunned paleontologists with its bizarre, otherworldly features. Unveiled in the pages of Royal Society Open Science, this ancient arthropod sheds ...

Near a river in the Democratic Republic of the Congo sat a temporary pond, doomed to dry up eventually. Inside swam a ...

Paleontologists have discovered a three-eyed creature with a pencil sharpener-like mouth that roamed the sea for prey more than 500 million years ago. The fossilized remains of one Mosura fentoni ...

Meet the 'sea moth,' a three-eyed sea creature from 500 million years ago The Mosura fentoni, or "sea moth," may have used its third, median eye to detect light and move around its environment.

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 ...

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In a small, isolated swamp along the coast of Madagascar, a multi-colored fish swam just below the surface of the water. Near the top, the water was clear, allowing the light to reflect off the ...

Scientists found a pregnant creature with “large” golden eyes on a rocky hill in Cambodia and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo from Quah, Grismer, Sinovas, Chourn, Chhin, Hun ...

Paleontologists have discovered a three-eyed creature with a pencil sharpener-like mouth that roamed the sea for prey more than 500 million years ago.