Prehistoric times had no shortage of pretty scary creatures, but you need to look no further than this huge arthopod to find ...

The new fossil, named Lomankus edgecombei, after arthropod expert Greg Edgecombe of London's Natural History Museum, belongs to a group called megacheirans, an iconic group of arthropods with a ...

The researchers were also interested in knowing why loriciferans and kinorhynchs share a similar nervous system design with arthropods despite entering different lines of evolution at some point.

“The anterior sclerite has been lost in modern arthropods, as it most likely fused with other parts of the head during the evolutionary history of the group,” Ortega-Hernández in a statement. “What we ...

The fossil record reveals a rich history of these ... Additionally, the Rose Creek plant assemblage in Nebraska provided insights into arthropod herbivory at the dawn of angiosperm diversification.

It’s believed the fossil could be the missing link in a species of arthropod, or insect like creature, that lived in the basin when it was underwater. It’s since been taken from where it was ...

Photograph by James L. Amos The iconic arthropods of the Cambrian were the trilobites, which left a huge number of fossils. Trilobites had flattened, segmented, plated bodies that helped to ...

In a report published Tuesday in the journal Current Biology, Parry and a team of researchers announced the fossil is a previously unknown species of arthropod − a category that includes spiders ...

These fossils include representatives of the early-evolving Scalidophora, a subgroup of Ecdysozoa, offering a rare glimpse into the nervous system architecture of ancient animals. Ecdysozoans include ...

It is a “living fossil” whose appearance has remained ... while males are 50 cm long and weigh about 1.5 kg. The arthropod is actually not a relative of crabs but closely related to spiders ...

feeding on common arthropods like Isoxys. These fossils are also helping scientists learn more about how jawed predators evolved and where they came from. Timorebestia had a jaw in its head ...

These fossils include representatives of the early ... Ecdysozoans include arthropods (such as insects and crabs), nematodes (roundworms), and smaller groups like kinorhynchs ("mud dragons ...