"When I used to daydream about the one fossil I'd most like to discover, I'd always be thinking of an arthropod larva because ...

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 ...

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

“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 ...

Horseshoe crabs are often referred to as the "living fossils" of our planet—the four known species, including three in Asia ...

Additionally, the Chengjiang Biota, one of the earliest fossil assemblages, has been studied to understand the environmental conditions in which these early arthropods lived. Recent findings ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

The fossils included Scalidophora, a subgroup of Ecdysozoa. Ecdysozoans include arthropods (such as insects and crabs), nematodes (roundworms), and smaller groups like kinorhynchs (“mud dragons ...

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 ...