A 444 million-year-old arthropod fossil, discovered 25 years ago, has been identified. The fossil, named Keurbos susanae, was found in South Africa's Soom Shale. Unusually, it's preserved inside ...

“We are now sure she was a primitive marine arthropod, but her precise evolutionary relationships remain frustratingly elusive.” Sarah Gabbott, the study’s lead author and a professor in the School of ...

For over a century, the Cambrian arthropod Helmetia expansa remained a mystery. Discovered by paleontologist Charles Doolittle Walcott in 1918, it was initially classified as a crustacean.

"We are now sure she was a primitive marine arthropod but her precise evolutionary relationships remain frustratingly elusive." Today, about 85% of animals on Earth are arthropods, and they ...

"We are now sure she was a primitive marine arthropod, but her precise evolutionary relationships remain frustratingly elusive." Sarah Gabbott, the study's lead author and a professor in the ...

An ancient wasp may have used an odd structure at its rear end to capture insects and lay its eggs on or inside of them, according to a new study published Thursday in BMC Biology. Researchers ...

The fossilized creature is one of the earliest ancestors of a group known as arthropods, which includes insects, crabs, and lobsters. A unique window into the past, the ancient critter has allowed ...

Go back far enough, and you reach the trilobites, a now-extinct marine arthropod that lived for hundreds of millions of years. “If we then infer trilobites were conscious, what did they need?” ...