The shortest cladograms based on the morphology and ... shows monophyly of arthropods (Fig. 1). Pycnogonids are a sister group to all other euarthropods, as is also resolved based on the non ...

Here we describe exceptionally well-preserved complex digestive organs in early arthropods from the early Cambrian of China and Greenland with functional similarities to certain modern crustaceans ...

A 508-million-year-old critter — one that looks like a weird lobster with 50 legs, two claws and a tent-like shell — is the oldest known arthropod with mandibles on record, a new study finds.

Now, two well-preserved fossils of the creature unearthed in France have finally revealed what Arthropleura’s head looked like, providing insights into how the giant arthropod lived. Today ...

A new fossil find reveals that in an ancient arthropod species, no animal was an island. The discovery of 525-million-year-old fossils belonging to a new species of arthropod shows that these ...

The striking fossil is a newly identified species of arthropod, a distant relative of modern-day horseshoe crabs, scorpions, and spiders, that slightly resembles a modern-day shrimp. The creature ...

Arthropod animals were moulting to make room for growth more than 500 million years ago, fossil evidence confirms. Scientists have long believed these creatures shed their hard, outer layers, just ...

Importantly, Kylinxia is filling in some evolutionary gaps in our understanding of the evolution of animals known as arthropods. This phylum of animals includes insects, crabs, shrimp, scorpions ...