Researchers have wondered how an alligator-size arthropod lived more than 300 million years ago. The discovery of an intact Arthropleura head offers new insights.

Researchers have wondered how an alligator-size arthropod lived more than 300 million years ago. The discovery of an intact Arthropleura head offers new insights.

A creature that scuttled along the seafloor 450 million years ago has been preserved in a rare and striking fossil that formed in fool’s gold.

The species belongs to a group of arthropods nicknamed "sea moths" that use a flap-like apparatus similar to wings to help them swim, the authors said in a statement.The mechanism gives the ...

Here’s how an arthropod pulls off the world’s fastest backflip. Springtails can reach a spin rate of 368 rotations per second in the blink of an eye.

Entomologist’s free coloring book on arthropods is a fun, informative tool for young naturalists February 6, 2021 More than 4 years ago Scorpions are members of the phylum Arthropoda.

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 ...

Way, way, way back then and now. Given its physical characteristics, the researchers think that Y. yuanshi displays features of both extinct and extant arthropods.Some are ancestral ...

A newly discovered three-eyed relative is disappointingly unrelated to the eerie three-eyed ravens of Game of Thrones.But this Cambrian-era beast is a relative of today’s insects and boasts some ...

A creature that scuttled along the seafloor 450 million years ago has been preserved in a rare and striking fossil that formed in fool’s gold.