An international team of paleontologists has unearthed a fossilized arthropod that carried its young in pouches tethered to the parent’s body, like a...
A team of paleontologists led by Yunnan University scientist Xi-guang Zhang has unearthed one of the oldest fossils of the central nervous system yet found.
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Americans share their houses with any of more than 500 different morphospecies of arthropods (insects and their relatives) – at least on a short-term...
A team of scientists led by Prof Pavel Stoev of the National Museum of Natural History and Pensoft Publishers in Bulgaria has described a new species of...
Paleontologists from the University of Toronto and the University of Cambridge, UK, have found that a weird creature from 505 million years ago, known...
Dr Javier Ortega-Hernández of the University of Cambridge, UK, has discovered one of the oldest fossil brains ever found, and used it to help identify...
A multinational group of paleontologists has described a prehistoric lobster-like animal from the Marble Canyon site, part of the renowned Canadian Burgess...
Paleontologists have discovered fossils of a 2-m-long lobster-like animal that lived in the seas of what is now Morocco during the early Ordovician period,...
A multinational group of genetic researchers has sequenced the genome of a maritime centipede called Strigamia maritima, enabling them to reconstruct many...
Paleontologists from China, the United States and United Kingdom have discovered a 3-inch-long fossil of a prehistoric shrimp-like animal with the earliest...
A new study published in the journal Geology suggests extinct arthropods known as trilobites were likely able to venture into very shallow water of the...
Scientists from the United States and the United Kingdom have described a fossil species of marine arthropod that lived during the Silurian period.
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Dr David Legg, a paleontologist with the Department of Earth Science and Engineering at Imperial College London, has discovered an ancient creature with...
According to an international team of paleontologists, a Cambrian fossil arthropod found in China is the earliest known fossil to show a brain.
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One fly and two mites found in droplets of amber from northeastern Italy are about 100 million years older than any other amber arthropod – invertebrate...
A Spanish-Russian team of scientists has discovered four new species of arthropods in a cave in the region of Abkhazia near the Black Sea. One of these...
