The alternative text for this image may have been generated using AI. This analysis demonstrates the importance of including fossil data in large-scale phylogenetic analyses and helps to resolve ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An illustration of Lomankus edgecombei. This arthropod lived about 538 to 485 million years ago in dark and low-oxygen ...

For nearly two centuries, scientists have tried to solve an enduring mystery about a giant millipede-like animal named Arthropleura that used its many legs to roam Earth more than 300 million years ...

Despite differences in shape and size all insects are characterized by a body organization that includes three units: a head, thorax and abdomen (panels A-B). In contrast all spiders (and other ...

Measuring our own heart rate seems like a straightforward idea, but how would you go about taking the pulse of a grasshopper or a spider? A new technique has been developed to measure the heart rate ...

An international team of scientists report in the journal Genome Biology results from a pilot project, co-led by Robert Waterhouse, Group Leader at the SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics and ...

Scientists discover a new species of arthropod preserved in 3-D by iron pyrite. “We get an almost complete look at their anatomy,” says Luke Parry, an Earth sciences professor at Oxford University and ...

A new 450-million-year-old fossil arthropod, preserved in 3D by iron pyrite (fool’s gold), has been unveiled by scientists. The new species, Lomankus edgecombei, is distantly related to spiders, ...

Exceptionally well preserved 520-million-year-old arthropod brains overturn the old idea that nervous tissue does not fossilize, and provide fresh insights into brain evolution At first glance, the ...

Scientists have discovered a new fossil that reveals the origin of gills in arthropods. University of Manchester research fellow David Legg, in collaboration with a team of international scientists ...

Paleontologists working in Morocco have found a fossil of a bizarre sea creature that could grow up to seven feet in length and gathered plankton like a whale. The newly discovered animal, dubbed ...