Invert keepers love creepy crawlies and often dream of keeping them as pets. Millipedes are one of the best options because ...

Scientists have uncovered a remarkable fossil from Canada's Burgess Shale, a discovery that reshapes how the evolution of ...

Sensory features on the armored exoskeletons of ancient fish may be the reason why humans have teeth that are sensitive to ...

A newly discovered arthropod fossil, Mosura fentoni, has preserved eyes, nerves, and blood vessels - a rare insight into early arthropods.

Paleontologists have discovered that a three-eyed sea moth predator lived on Earth half a billion years ago with evidence found in one of the most fossil-rich areas of the world.

“What makes them interesting is their distinct body plan, which shares some of the characteristics of living arthropods but not others. They have compound eyes, for example, but only just the one pair ...

For example, preserved in the larva was a region of the brain known as the protocerebrum. Now that scientists have seen it, they can see that it evolved into the “nub” of arthropod heads that ...

In the last half a billion years, there are only a handful of examples of places where this occurs.” The new species is called Lomankus edgecombei in recognition of arthropod expert Greg ...

Named Lomankus edgecombei, the arthropod is a remarkably bright golden ... In the last half a billion years there are only a handful of examples of places where this occurs.” ...

Briggs and his co-authors said Lomankus, which is part of an extinct group of arthropods called Megacheira, is evolutionarily significant in several ways. Like other Megacheirans, Lomankus is an ...