The discovery of two ancient fossils shows early mollusks were more complex and diverse than previously thought. Researchers ...

The ancient specimens, which were given surprising names by scientists, were found in Herefordshire, in a breakthrough that ...

The prehistoric creatures look to be sporting a punk hairstyle and emo bangs, and one of them seemingly moved like an ...

Additionally, the study of graptolites, another important fossil group from the Silurian, has provided insights into the diversity and evolutionary changes that occurred during extinction events.

The discovery of Punk ferox and Emo vorticaudum is a reminder of how much remains to be learned about life’s evolutionary ...

Punk ferox was named due to the fancied resemblance of the spicule array to the spiked hairstyles associated with the punk rock movement.

Dating back to the Silurian period, the fossils belong to the Aculifera group, which includes chitons and worm-like mollusks. Traditionally, scientists viewed these creatures as basic and primitive.

This group appeared in the late Silurian and persisted into the Late ... Huang Pu from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in collaboration ...

The fossils dating from the Silurian period were retrieved from Herefordshire and shed light on the molluscs’ complex evolutionary history and how they moved. The discovery challenges the ...

Unearthed from stratum from the Silurian Period near Prague, the fossil is comprised of a furcate stem with a trumpet-shaped spore case at its end. Since it has no leaves, the species is believed ...