The fossils offer a rare glimpse into a cataclysmic event that brought a sudden end to the greatest explosion of life in our planet's history.

Paleontologists in England discovered the existence of a new marine species that roamed the Earth before the dinosaurs and nicknamed the headless arthropod “Sue” after one of their mothers, according ...

Researchers have detected previously overlooked eyes whose form and function could help to improve the evolutionary classification of archaic arthropods. Trilobites, prehistoric sea creatures, had ...

Half a billion years ago, a shallow sea in what is now Siberia teemed with creatures that look more like science fiction than prehistory. Locked in that ancient seabed, scientists have now identified ...

Arthropods crawl and buzz around us in the wild and on farmlands, on the street and at home, under our floors and in our plumbing systems, even in our food and on our bodies. But while we often are ...

All that glitters is not gold. But in the world of fossil discovery, a golden glitter is plenty of cause for celebration − even if it's not real. That was the case for Luke Parry, a paleobiology ...

For nearly two centuries, scientists have tried to solve an enduring mystery about a giant millipede-like animal named Arthropleura that used its many legs to roam Earth more than 300 million years ...

“The truth is that we’re all living with this vast diversity of arthropods and the majority of them are not overtly harmful,” study coauthor Michelle Trautwein of the California Academy of Sciences ...