"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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ... 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 ...

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

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