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 ...

Of all the bugs New Zealanders could have selected to win an international competition, they chose neither the prettiest, nor the most useful. The NZ velvet worm won this year’s New Zealand Bug of the ...

A groundbreaking fossil discovery in remote South Australia sheds light on one of evolution’s greatest mysteries: the origins of Ecdysozoa, a superphylum of molting animals including insects, ...

Bone worms (the red animals in this picture) were first discovered in the early 2000s, but these animals are believed to have evolved more than 100 million years ago. Adapted from Fujiwara et al. via ...

For a long time, scientists believed that parasitic relationships between marine species developed much later in Earth’s history. But new fossil evidence from Morocco suggests otherwise. A recent ...