Hallucigenia was such an odd animal that palaeontologists reconstructed it upside-down when they first analysed its fossils - ...

Hallucigenia sparsa is one of the most unusual animals that occurred more than 500 million years ago. Although its anatomy ...

A Hallucigenia sparsa fossil from the Burgess Shale in Canad. The fossil is 15 mm long. Jean-Bernard Caron Hallucigenia -- a thumb-sized worm that went extinct over 400 million years ago -- left ...

A fifty-year-old mystery surrounding one of the most bizarre-looking fossils ever discovered has been solved -- and an ancient worm-like creature finally has a face. The tiny sea creature, known as ...

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“It was as if the fossil was grinning at us at the secrets it had been hiding,” said Dr. Martin Smith, but he remembered the time when a 500-million-year-old riddle all at once became clear.

It’s a good time to be studying bizarre wormlike fossils from half a billion years ago. Last week, the most comprehensive description yet of Hallucigenia was published. That paper described Wiwaxia as ...

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If only Stephen Jay Gould could have lived to see this. Hallucigenia, the mysterious wormlike organism with two rows of spines from the Burgess Shale, has undergone its second reversal. Hallucigenia ...

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