Focused on Cambrian fossils, the study reanimates a species long trapped in the pages of forgotten paleontology.

Researchers formally describe Helmetia expansa, offering new insights into its anatomy, behavior and evolutionary relationships.

The new study found the characteristics in Helmetia expansa differed from previous studies. It is said that these species had ...

A mysterious fossilized creature discovered more than a century ago has finally been decoded, offering stunning insights into ...

For over a century, the Cambrian arthropod Helmetia expansa remained a mystery. Discovered by paleontologist Charles Doolittle Walcott in 1918, it was ...

He’s also into horseshoe crabs ... And he’ll wait until they molt. Their armor shed, the crabs become known as softshells or quite edible, and those he’ll deliver directly to chefs on ...

For over a century, scientists have been puzzled by a mysterious fossil called Helmetia expansa, an ancient arthropod from ...

Their remarkable navigational abilities guide them to the same narrow beaches year after year, with timing so precise they often arrive during the brief annual horseshoe crab spawning events ...

Indianapolis Zoo and Eli Lilly are part of a push to move medical industry away from using horseshoe crab blood and toward ...