Bone collectors seem to methodically curate their cases. Lacking insect and arthropod parts, the caterpillars won’t tack on other types of debris. And they pay special attention to size.

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 ...

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 ...

“We are now sure she was a primitive marine arthropod but her precise evolutionary relationships remain frustratingly elusive.” Professor Sarah Gabbott from the University of Leicester School of ...

The Committee to Advise on Tropical Medicine and Travel (CATMAT) is an expert advisory body that assists PHAC with travel health-related advice for travellers and health care professionals. The ...

A new planet like Star Wars' Tatooine detected outside of our solar system may orbit two failed stars, scientists reported Wednesday. The exoplanet 120 light years away takes an unusual path around ...

Scientists have detected an encouraging potential sign of life on a planet in a different solar system in what they believe is the “strongest indicator” that life exists beyond Earth. Researchers ...

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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.

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 ...