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 arthropod body ...

The arthropod fossil used to describe a new species (left) and CT scans of the specimen (right) Luke Parry (photograph), Yu Liu, Ruixin Ran (3D models). Edited by Emily Lankiewicz Long ago ...

The striking fossil is a newly identified species of arthropod, a distant relative of modern-day horseshoe crabs, scorpions, and spiders, that slightly resembles a modern-day shrimp. The creature ...

A newly discovered 450-million-year-old fossil arthropod was found entirely preserved in pyrite–aka fool’s gold. The newly named species Lomankus edgecombei boasts a leg coming out of its head ...

He is also a curator at the Yale Peabody Museum. Briggs and his co-authors said Lomankus, which is part of an extinct group of arthropods called Megacheira, is evolutionarily significant in several ...

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 ...

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.

Now, two well-preserved fossils of the creature unearthed in France have finally revealed what Arthropleura’s head looked like, providing insights into how the giant arthropod lived. Today ...

The largest bug to ever live on Earth was a massive arthropod known as Arthropleura, which could reach up to 9 feet long and weigh around 50 kilograms. This giant creature, which lived during the ...

For the 170 years that scientists have been aware of Arthropleura, a genus of the biggest arthropods ever known to have existed, there’s been a key question that has remained unanswered ...

Two newly discovered fossils are helping scientists wrap their heads around the anatomy of the largest arthropod of all time — a millipede that grew longer than a king-sized bed and lived ...