Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. As Lovecraft inspired the authors of the discovery, fossils ...

Today's oceans are full of interesting and bizarre creatures, many of which would seem utterly unfathomable to us if we hadn't learned of their existence from a young age. Take a starfish, for example ...

The weird sea creature you see here was recently discovered as an ancient fossil and is a species related to modern sea cucumbers. The team of researchers that discovered the 430 million-year-old ...