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 ...

A new study by Prof. Ariel Chipman of The Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem provides a novel model for understanding the development and evolution of ...

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 ...

Being an arthropod, with an external skeleton and jointed limbs, is a good thing in evolutionary terms. But the question of how the main groups of arthropods are related remains a subject of intense ...

Despite differences in shape and size all insects are characterized by a body organization that includes three units: a head, thorax and abdomen (panels A-B). In contrast all spiders (and other ...

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 ...