Contemporary arthropods use the legs at the front of their bodies for many functions. Some deploy them like insect antennae to sense their surroundings. Others adapted them into pinchers, to grasp ...

A newly discovered species has been called Lomankus edgecombei, and is distantly related to scorpions and horseshoe crabs. Named after arthropod expert Greg Edgecombe, the fossil belongs to a group ...

The critter found in New York represents a new, extinct species of arthropod that could shed light on the evolution of today’s insects, crustaceans and spiders Margherita Bassi Daily ...

That was the case for Luke Parry, a paleobiology professor at Oxford University, who announced this week that he had ...

Scientists have identified Uncus dzaugisi, the oldest ecdysozoan fossil from the Precambrian period, confirming long-held ...

Uncover the golden fossil of Lomankus edgecombei, a 450-million-year-old arthropod, offering rare insights into ancient ...

A team of researchers led by Associate Professor Luke Parry, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, have unveiled a spectacular new 450-million-year-old fossil arthropod (the group that ...

A newly discovered 450-million-year-old fossil arthropod was found entirely preserved in pyrite–aka fool’s gold. The newly named species Lomankus edgecombei boasts a leg coming out of its head ...

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 ...

Researchers have uncovered a golden-colored, 450-million-year-old fossil of a new arthropod species, preserved in fool’s gold ...

change in species diversity between different ecosystems. The study provides the first evidence that regional-scale β-diversity patterns of soil arthropods also follow the same patterns as other ...