A team of scientists have discovered an ancient arthropod that may show the origins of branched limbs and the first gill-like breathing structures in the clade. When researchers working in ...

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 ...

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More than 500 million years ago, strange creatures with segmented bodies roamed the ocean floors. Among them were trilobites, ancient arthropods whose hard exoskeletons are well known to ...

The Burgess Shale in British Columbia is renowned for its exceptional preservation of soft tissues in fossils, including limbs and guts. While trilobites are abundant in the fossil record thanks to ...

a, A complete specimen with antennae and limbs (USNM PAL 65510). b, Limbs of GSC 34695a showing various degrees of flexure and extension. The Burgess Shale in British Columbia is renowned for its ...

Researchers formally describe Helmetia expansa, offering new insights into its anatomy, behavior and evolutionary relationships. For over a century, the Cambrian arthropod Helmetia expansa remained a ...

The discovery of clasper limbs in a fossil suggests that some species of the ancient arthropods reproduced much like modern horseshoe crabs. By Jack Tamisiea The sturdy, calcite-infused exoskeletons ...

UNDATED (CBS NEWS) -- A 480-million-year-old fossil is giving paleontologists new insights into a sea-monster-like creature called an anomalocaridid, which is an ancestor of modern-day arthropods such ...

As school children are commonly taught, adult insects have six legs. No more, no less. But there's more to this story. The class Insecta is descended from multilimb ancestors, and most other living ...

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 ...