A king cobra was rescued by a snake-handling expert in Miag-ao town, Province of Iloilo. The king cobra had just devoured reportedly another snake when it was rescued in Barangay Mat-y, Miag-ao on ...

Scientists have uncovered a strange new Cambrian sea creature called Mosura fentoni in Canada’s famous Burgess shale. M. fentoni is a radiodont, a distant relative of today’s insects, crabs, and ...

In the Burgess Shale, an exceptional fossil sheds new light on the evolution of early arthropods. Mosura fentoni, with its three eyes and unique anatomy, overturns established classifications. This ...

Scientists examining a rare fossil found in Canada’s Burgess Shale have discovered a predator with three eyes that lived over 500 million years ago. The fossil species, named Mosura fentoni for ...

Mosura had a unique abdomen-like body region with multiple segments at its back end, according to a new study published in the journal Royal Society Open Science. “This is a neat example of ...

Paleontologists recently discovered a 506-million-year-old “moth-like” predator that lurked in prehistoric Canada. In a press release from the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM), officials identified the ...

Experts in Canada have discovered fossils of a 500-million-year-old predator that lived in the sea. Not only that, it also possessed some rather, err, unusual features. It had three eyes, spiny claws ...

Paleontologists have identified Mosura fentoni, a three-eyed predator from the Cambrian Period, based on over 60 fossils discovered. This "sea moth," a radiodont, offers insights into early arthropod ...

It’s not every day that science uncovers an ocean oddity from over 500 million years ago. But that’s exactly what happened when researchers came across a tiny, three-eyed predator that once glided ...

Paleontologists recently discovered a 506-million-year-old "moth-like" predator that lurked in prehistoric Canada. In a press release from the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM), officials identified the ...

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