A new study, led by palaeontologists at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) is helping resolve the evolution and ecology of Odaraia, a taco-shaped marine animal that lived during the Cambrian period.

Royal Ontario Museum revealed new research based on a ... These findings shed light on the evolution of the arthropod brain, vision, and head structure. The results were announced in the paper ...

Paleontologists have discovered a three-eyed creature with a pencil sharpener-like mouth that roamed the sea for prey more than 500 million years ago. The fossilized remains of one Mosura fentoni — ...

Danielle Dufault, Royal Ontario Museum Around 540 million years ago, the world witnessed the Cambrian explosion: a fast-paced period of evolution that produced more advanced organisms than ever ...

Royal Ontario Museum announces the oldest swimming jellyfish ... animals that the Burgess Shale has preserved chronicling the evolution of life on Earth." Cnidarians have complex life cycles ...

Every once in a while, evolution stumbles across a good idea ... is actually a new discovery by scientists at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM). While analyzing pristine fossil samples pulled from ...

It turns out that preservation of these structures is widespread, confirming the ancient origin of this type of circulatory system.” Anatomical diagram of Mosura fentoni, showing preserved details of ...

On February 14 in Toronto, the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM ... “The updating of the building is a collaborative and creative evolution in service of the Museum’s programs and facilities. OpenROM will ...

These findings shed light on the evolution of the arthropod brain ... in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, based at the Royal Ontario Museum. “We can even make out fine details such as visual ...

The predator was about the length of an index finger, with three eyes dotting its head and a circular mouth lined with teeth, according to paleontologists at the Manitoba Museum and Royal Ontario ...