Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This is definitely one creature you wouldn’t want to run into in a dark alley, at least if you were around 500 million years ago.

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 ...

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 ...

Any way you look at it -- by sheer weight, species diversity or population -- the hard-shelled, joint-legged creepy crawlies called arthropods dominate planet Earth. Because of their success and ...

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Arthropod animals were moulting to make room for growth more than 500 million years ago, fossil evidence confirms. Scientists have long believed these creatures shed their hard, outer layers, just ...

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, ...

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 ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Dan Babbit, Manager at the Insect Zoo and Live Butterfly Pavilion at Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, highlights the adaptive ...

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 ...