A predator that swam Earth's oceans more than half a billion years ago is unlike any creature that lives on our planet today.

The fossil dubbed 'Mosura' showcases that arthropods were more advanced than previously believed. It was well preserved, and ...

Scientists have uncovered a remarkable fossil from Canada's Burgess Shale, a discovery that reshapes how the evolution of ...

In the Burgess Shale, an exceptional fossil sheds new light on the evolution of early arthropods. Mosura fentoni, with its ...

Mosura fentoni, also dubbed “sea moth” due to its broad swimming flaps and narrow abdomen, was a member of an extinct group ...

Paleontologists recently discovered a 506-million-year-old “moth-like” predator that lurked in prehistoric Canada. In a press ...

It has a shape resembling structures in its modern relatives such as horseshoe crabs, woodlice, and insects, where respiratory ... arthropods. Mosura also had an open circulatory system, where ...

circulatory system, and digestive tract. "We can see traces representing bundles of nerves in the eyes that would have been involved in image processing, just like in living arthropods," the ...

which — like modern arthropods — Mosura used for image processing, Caron said. Rather than arteries and veins, Mosura also had an open circulatory system, meaning that its heart pumped blood ...

Paleontologists have discovered fossils of a 506 million-year-old tiny three-eyed predator nicknamed the “sea moth,” ...