Surprising new research shows that, contrary to conventional belief, remains of chitin-protein complex–structural materials containing protein and polysaccharide–are present in abundance in fossils of ...

Long before dinosaurs, Earth’s forests were ruled by a many-legged giant. Here’s why this millipede’s size still challenges ...

University of Toronto provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation CA. University of Toronto provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA-FR. Paleontology is undergoing a new ...

Eurypterids (Arthropoda: Chelicerata), normally known as sea scorpions, are an important extinct group of Paleozoic chelicerate arthropods. Researchers led by Profs. Zhang Haichun, Wang Bo, Zhang ...

BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich. (WXYZ) — Cranbrook Institute of Science will welcome a new traveling exhibition, Trilobite Treasures: Arthropods of the Ancient Seas, to the ...

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 ...

A three-part British documentary film series about life in the Paleozoic, bringing to life extinct arthropods, fish, amphibians, synapsids, and reptiles. Narrated by Kenneth Branagh and using state-of ...

The discovery of clasper limbs in a fossil suggests that some species of the ancient arthropods reproduced much like modern horseshoe crabs. By Jack Tamisiea The sturdy, calcite-infused exoskeletons ...

Javier Ortega-Hernández, Assistant Professor in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University, has been awarded an Early Career Grant from the 2022 Human Frontier Science ...