It looked, at first, like the sort of fossil Rudy Lerosey-Aubril knew well. After a long day of teaching, the Harvard ...

A new fossil find reveals that in an ancient arthropod species, no animal was an island. The discovery of 525-million-year-old fossils belonging to a new species of arthropod shows that these animals ...

A long-neglected fossil seems to show the evolutionary leap that let the ancestors of today’s many-legged arthropods crawl ...

Arthropods have been among the most successful animals on Earth since the Cambrian Period, about 520 million years ago. They are the most familiar and ubiquitous, and constitute nearly 80% of all ...

Palaeontologists are helping resolve the evolution and ecology of Odaraia, a taco-shaped marine animal that lived during the Cambrian period. Fossils reveal Odaraia had mandibles. Palaeontologists are ...

A new study from the rainforests of Panama provides an unprecedented level of detail regarding the diversity and distribution of arthropod species from the soil to the forest canopy. Yves Basset, ...

While it's new in terms of scientific notice, the marine creature recently discovered in Canada by a team from the University of Toronto and named Yawunik Kootenayi dates back over 500 million years ...

Panama’s San Lorenzo forest reserve is around the size of Manhattan. For two years, this small area was host to 102 scientists, working together to count everything that crept and crawled. They came ...

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The evolutionary innovations of insects and other arthropods are as numerous as they are wondrous, from terrifying fangs and stingers to exquisitely colored wings and ingenious feats of engineering.

A laboratory technician contacted the veterinary service to report that her mice were infested with 'ticks'. Additionally, she reported that she had developed several intensely pruritic, erythematous ...