Sep 2, 2025 by News Staff

Arthropod appendages are specialized for diverse roles including feeding, walking, and mating. Fossils from the Cambrian period (539 to 487 million years...

Aug 11, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists have identified a new species of dromaeosaurid dinosaur from an almost complete and articulated skeleton found in the 2000s in Mongolia. Life...

Oct 7, 2024 by News Staff

New research by paleontologists from the University of Leicester, the University of Birmingham and Liverpool John Moores University demonstrates an unexpectedly...

Sep 7, 2023 by News Staff

Early humans and apes likely evolved free-moving shoulders and flexible elbows to slow their descent from trees as gravity pulled on their heavier bodies,...

Aug 29, 2023 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists from Yunnan University, the University of Leicester and the Natural History Museum, London have conducted a microtomographic study of new...

Nov 9, 2022 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists have discovered a new fossil reptile that lived during the Late Triassic epoch in southern Brazil. Life reconstruction of Stenoscelida...

Sep 9, 2022 by News Staff

Scientists from the United Kingdom and Spain have discovered that tetrapods had more complex connections between their skull bones than fish and, rather...

Jul 8, 2022 by Natali Anderson

Balhuticaris voltae is the largest bivalved arthropod to date, at almost double the size of the previous record-holder, Nereocaris exilis. Life reconstruction...

Feb 8, 2022 by News Staff

Erratus sperare, a new species of ancient marine arthropod from eastern Yunnan, China, had unique trunk appendages that represent an intermediate stage...