The newly discovered species of priapulid, Kraytdraco spectatus, got its name from a Star Wars monster. Illustration by Rhydian Evans In September of 2023, Giovanni Mussini, a paleontologist and ...

Researchers in Tunisia found the largest “worm lizard” that has ever lived with a feeding strategy that has remained consistent for millions of years. The recently identified Terastiodontosaurus ...

For decades, one of the strangest animals in the fossil record was drawn literally upside down and back to front. The creature is called Hallucigenia, a spiky worm from the Cambrian seas about 508 ...