Researchers have wondered how an alligator-size arthropod lived more than 300 million years ago. The discovery of an intact Arthropleura head offers new insights.

More information: Ariel D. Chipman, The development and evolution of arthropod tagmata, Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences (2025). DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2024.2950 Provided by ...

A creature that scuttled along the seafloor 450 million years ago has been preserved in a rare and striking fossil that formed in fool’s gold.

Long ago, an unlucky arthropod was buried alive in a submarine landslide. Its memory, however, would be immortalized in the most glorious of ways: 450 million years later, scientists have ...

The largest arthropod to ever live finally has a head . Scientists have been looking for Arthropleura’s fossilized head for over 100 years.

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 ...

Is there a limit to how small an adult arthropod can be? If so, what is the reason for the limit? David Bortin Whittier, California, US. Arthropods, like everything else, must have a theoretical ...

The composition of bacterial communities in blood-sucking arthropods can shift dramatically across time and space (Jones et al., 2010).These shifts are linked in part to variable arthropod ...

450-million-year-old arthropod found preserved in fool’s gold Lomankus edgecombei and other arthropods are ‘like a biological Swiss army knife.’ By Laura Baisas ...

Here’s how an arthropod pulls off the world’s fastest backflip. Springtails can reach a spin rate of 368 rotations per second in the blink of an eye.

A creature that scuttled along the seafloor 450 million years ago has been preserved in a rare and striking fossil that formed in fool’s gold.