Scientists have decoded the sea spider’s genome for the first time, revealing how its strangely shaped body—with organs in its legs and barely any abdomen—may be tied to a missing gene. The detailed ...

Pycnogonum litorale, adult male feeding on a sea anemone. C: Georg Brenneis The first high-quality pycnogonid genome provides ...

With a distinctive three-eyed appearance, clawed limbs, and gill-lined tail segments, Mosura provides a glimpse into the strange and often alien-like biodiversity that once thrived in the oceans. A ...

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 ...

Plus, the structure that Haridy had found in Anatolepis (the now-arthropod) was for sensing. "All this extra anatomy," she says, "it's to sense pressure or to sense chemistry in the air or water." So ...

The problem of using male anatomy as the default in medicine is that it doesn’t always read across to female bodies.

For 78 years, the Edna Lawrence Nature Lab at the Rhode Island School of Design has given art students a place to inspect—and draw inspiration from—the natural world.

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 ...

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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 ...

The giant arthropod 'Arthropleura', which roamed the Earth over 300 million years ago, combined traits of millipedes and centipedes, new fossils have revealed.