They may look like ancient aliens, but these strange fossilised creatures are a distant relative of humans. More than 100 years after they were discovered, experts have identified the fossils as ...

Newfound fossils may solve a century-long mystery over the identity of a bizarre 500-million-year-old animal. Strange figure-8 shaped creatures from the Cambrian Period are actually very distant ...

More than 100 years since they were first discovered, some of the world's most bizarre fossils have been identified as close relatives of vertebrates. The fossils belong to 500-million-year-old blind ...

Artist's Impression: Vetulicolians (IMAGE) University of Adelaide Caption An artists's impression of the 500-million-year-old marine creatures known as vetulicolians, now believed to be distant ...

More than 100 years since they were first discovered, some of the world's most bizarre fossils have been identified as distant relatives of humans, thanks to the work of University of Adelaide ...

Researchers engaged in acts of discovery sometimes have to confront the truly strange and make sense of it. Many of the fossils from the Cambrian Period (about 543–510 million years ago) are cases in ...

A bold claim about the origins of the echinoderms is based on newly discovered fossils from China. But many pieces are still missing from this part of the fragmented puzzle of life's evolutionary ...