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.

“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 ...

An international team of scientists report in the journal Genome Biology results from a pilot project, co-led by Robert Waterhouse, Group Leader at the SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics and ...

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 ...

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, ...

Scientists from the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) have discovered a new species of Diplura in the eastern Himalayas, ...

Kolkata, Feb 16 (UNI Scientists at the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) have discovered a new species of Diplura, marking a historic milestone in Indian entomology, an official said on Monday.

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 ...

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 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 ...