Diverse molecular data sources support a close relationship between hexapods and crustaceans (collectively known as Tetraconata or Pancrustacea), either as sister taxa 6, a result also favoured by ...

“As well as having their beautiful and striking golden color, these fossils are spectacularly preserved,” study co-author and University of Oxford paleontologist Luke Parry said in a statement. “They ...

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University of Manchester research fellow David Legg, in collaboration with a team of international scientists from China, Switzerland, and Sweden, has today announced a new fossil that reveals the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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A 2007 illustration of Arthropleura, the largest known arthropod, which grew nearly as large as a car. New research suggests previous visualizations of the animal's head were incorrect. De Agostini ...

The arthropod Arthropleura is the largest known arthropod ever to inhabit the Earth. The giant arthropod ‘Arthropleura', which roamed the Earth over 300 million years ago, combined traits of ...

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 ...

It's well-known that the world's rainforests contain an enormous variety of arthropods, the group of animals that includes insects and spiders. But a new study shows that this variety is simply ...