"It's hooked proboscis and large body size suggest that it was an endoparasite that lived during the Jurassic period," he noted. According to Wang, this fossil implies that acanthocephalans may ...

Discovered 25 years ago, a 444-million-year-old marine arthropod fossil stumped paleontologists, as they couldn’t identify its exact species. Sarah Gabbot, who originally discovered the specimen ...

Its hooked proboscis and large body size suggest that it was an endoparasite during the Jurassic period. Furthermore, this fossil implies that acanthocephalans may have originated in terrestrial ...

Go back far enough, and you reach the trilobites, a now-extinct marine arthropod that lived for hundreds of millions of years. “If we then infer trilobites were conscious, what did they need?” ...

Currently, the state fossil is the Phacops rana, a type of Trilobite. "It's a bottom feeding Arthropod—which is a bug, and it's very common, found in multiple geological layers," said Mason.

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What Are Insect Stings and Spider Bites? A sting happens when an insect injects venom into your skin. The venom travels through the bug’s stinger. If you get stung, you’ll feel pain. Your ...

Fishburn, A. T., Florio, C. J., Klaessens, T. N., Prince, B., Adia, N. A. B., Lopez, N. J., Beesabathuni, N. S., Becker, S. S., Cherkashchenko, L., Haggard Arcé, S ...