Scientists have decoded the sea spider’s genome for the first time, revealing how its strangely shaped body—with organs in ...

For over a century, the Cambrian arthropod Helmetia expansa remained a mystery. Discovered by paleontologist Charles Doolittle Walcott in 1918, it was initially classified as a crustacean. Despite ...

A remarkably preserved 520-million-year-old Youti Yuanshi fossil, no bigger than a poppy seed, has unveiled unprecedented details of early arthropod anatomy. Using advanced imaging, researchers ...

(C) Reconstruction of Euproops danae, including the position and anatomy of the brain. Russell Bicknell Brain freeze: how to fossilise an arthropod brain. Most of our knowledge of prehistoric ...

The newly discovered Youti yuanshi larva fossil is so well-preserved that it provides a road map for arthropod evolution during the Cambrian period.

In 1822, a French naturalist by the name of Geoffrey Saint-Hilaire cut open a lobster and noticed that its arthropod anatomy was essentially a mirror image of our own, along what is called the ...

Using sophisticated imaging technology on these amber fossils, paleontologists can study tiny arthropod brains in 3D at minuscule scales.However, the oldest arthropods in amber only extend back to the ...

Being an arthropod, with an external skeleton and jointed limbs, is a good thing in evolutionary terms. But the question of how the main groups of arthropods are related remains a subject of ...

The fossil of an anomalocaridid, an ancient arthropod that lived 480-million-years-ago, is helping scientists learn about its surprising anatomy. Skip to main content. Open menu Close menu ...

“The evolution of biramous appendages revealed by a carapace-bearing Cambrian arthropod,” Phil Trans R Soc B, 377:20210034, 2022. Ancestral Bacteria May Have Invaded Early Eukaryotic Cells . Prev. Now ...