"Preservation like this is truly one in a million." For years, a small Canadian museum that was started by amateur ...
A rare 450-million-year-old fossil with preserved soft tissue is revealing how some of Earth's earliest reef animals lived ...
Long before the first dinosaurs walked the Earth, and even before animals or plants colonized the land surface, distant ...
A rare fossil discovery reveals soft tissue of an ancient crinoid. These delicate sea creatures lived over 450 million years ...
Echinoderms, such as starfish, sea urchins and sea lilies, use small, flexible, tubular projections called "tube feet" for locomotion, feeding, respiration and sensory perception. Crinoids, a subgroup ...
Soft tissue from a crinoid is offering paleontologists a direct look at some of Earth’s earliest coral reefs. Of all the ...