Michael Skvarla, assistant research professor of arthropod identification at Penn State University, said on May 28 that he has been receiving reports over the past week about periodical Brood XIV ...

The fossils of Mosura fentoni -- a species of arthropod that lived in the Cambrian Period -- were discovered in Burgess Shale in the Canadian Rockies, a region known for its exceptional ...

"Their development is really driven by heat and another important factor for them is to have standing water," said Sarah Hughson, an insect and arthropod diagnostician at Michigan State University.

The Mosura fentoni was a radiodont, a type of arthropod that lived between 520 to 400 million years ago, according to the United Kingdom's Natural History Museum. A popularly known radiodont is ...

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Alongside spiders, crabs, and millipedes, Mosura sat within a much deeper branch of the arthropod evolutionary tree. “Radiodonts were the first group of arthropods to branch out in the ...

Fossils of many early arthropod ancestors, including other radiodonts, reveal relatively simple body plans. Researchers have therefore long proposed that segmentation took a long time to evolve.

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More information: Early evolvability in arthropod tagmosis exemplified by a new radiodont from the Burgess Shale, Royal Society Open Science (2025). DOI: 10.1098/rsos.242122 ...

Palaeontologists at the Manitoba Museum and Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) have discovered a remarkable new 506-million-year-old predator from the Burgess Shale of Canada. The results are announced in ...