The new jellyfish species is the first ever found in the Burgess Shale, a 505-million-year-old fossil bed in the mountains of B.C. considered by UNESCO to be one of the most important in the world.

Scientists have discovered the oldest swimming jellyfish species that ever lived over 500 million years ago, an advance that sheds more light on the origin of the earliest animal species on Earth. The ...

A major deposit of rare jellyfish fossils have been discovered in Wisconsin, dating back more than a half-billion years. The fossils formed after several huge jellyfish were washed ashore, most ...

The jellyfish fossils retain remarkable details about the species’ anatomy. The 500-million-year-old animal has that same familiar “blobby body with a series of tentacles” that you’d ...

Researchers at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) and the University of Toronto have discovered evidence of the oldest swimming jellyfish in the fossil record, CNN reports. A study, published in ...

Moysiuk said the fossils of the 505-million-year-old jellyfish had been sitting on a shelf at the Royal Ontario Museum for decades until they were studied by his lab mate, Justin Moon, who's lead ...

Turning things upside down The fossils “have been hiding in the 310-million-year-old Mazon Creek fossil deposit of northern Illinois” for decades, according to the museum. After studying thousands of ...

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Browse here. “We’ve uncovered the oldest large swimming jellyfish that we know of in the fossil record.” The research was published Aug. 1 in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

Browse here. “We’ve uncovered the oldest large swimming jellyfish that we know of in the fossil record.” The research was published Tuesday in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B.