This new species, named Lomankus edgecombei, belongs to an extinct group of arthropods known as Megacheira ... details that provide valuable information about marine life in the Ordovician period, ...

We can study animals from all over the world thanks to science, but what about those that no longer exist? The list of extinct mammals could go on for ages, but each animal has a unique story.

Megacheirans like Lomankus were very diverse during the Cambrian Period some 538-485 million years ago, but they were thought to be largely extinct by the Ordovician Period ... of arthropod than any ...

They had mostly gone extinct by the Ordovician Period (485-443 million ... well-preserved trilobites and other organisms. The animals preserved here lived in a very hostile, dark, and low oxygen ...

Scientists say it's not fully clear why they went extinct, and the last reported animal died in Poland in 1627, with either human activity or a change in the climate being the main suspects in the ...

like pandas—which almost went extinct. Photograph By Ami Vitale, Nat Geo Image Collection Research has found that baby schema attributes can be seen in other animal species, particularly those ...

And yet, this modest snake is one of the most destructive invasives in the world, directly responsible for the extinction of over a dozen animal species ... Not all species went extinct, but ...

How could roaches a couple of inches long survive when so many powerful animals went extinct? It turns out that they were nicely equipped to live through a meteoric catastrophe. If you’ve ever seen a ...