Five hundred million years ago, a larva this small swam in the oceans of the Cambrian Period, its tiny form supporting a ...
If you think finding a needle in a haystack sounds challenging, try searching for fossils the size of fingernail clippings in massive slabs of rock. But that's just what a team of scientists is doing ...
The larva fossil, called Youti yuanshi, discovered in China, belongs to an early arthropod. (Natural History Museum/ © Smith et al. 2024/CC-BY 4.0) A 520-million ...
A fossilized larva dating back over half a billion years has been discovered with its brain, digestive system, and nerve ...