Nor is this the only remarkable feature in Canada's wild east, where the Earth tells its own story in distinct and dramatic chapters. 'Haven for geologists' Here in Newfoundland's high plateau of the ...

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Excavator Pikachu is ready to report for duty. The Pokémon Fossil Museum first opened in Japan in 2021, an initial collaboration between the National Museum of Nature and Science of Japan, four ...

The myriapoda group of arthropods includes the many-legged centipedes and millipedes that most people are familiar with. Although myriapods are all terrestrial creatures, researchers are unclear about ...

The ancient cephalopod, Nanaimoteuthis haggarti, appears to have been an apex predator that rivaled mosasaurs to rule prehistoric seas. A sketch of the giant octopus of the genus Nanaimoteuthis from ...

The fan favorite (and much longer) edit of David Fincher's film contains a different version of the much-maligned 'Alien' film. Here's what's new. By James Hibberd Writer-at-Large This version clocks ...

Goblet-shaped sea jelly relatives with miniature “arms.” A plump, legless creature resembling a sausage. Long, wormlike animals tipped with flat “holdfast” discs for anchoring to the seafloor.

A fresh look at a fossil found more than 40 years ago points to the origins of a widespread group of arthropods called chelicerates. While that name might not sound familiar, its modern-day members ...

If you want to find fossil Pokémon in Pokémon Pokopia, you'll need to recreate their skeletal bodies using their respective fossils. It's kind of bleak, but these ancient Pokémon want to live in ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Scientists believe they’ve deduced why prehistoric Ediacara Biota fossils have remained preserved for millions of years. The fossils of these ...

The Ediacara Biota are some of the strangest fossils ever found—soft-bodied organisms preserved in remarkable detail where preservation shouldn’t be possible. Scientists now think their survival in ...