A new study by Prof. 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 ...

University of Manchester research fellow David Legg, in collaboration with a team of international scientists from China, Switzerland, and Sweden, has today announced a new fossil that reveals the ...

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. A shimmering ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An illustration of Lomankus edgecombei. This arthropod lived about 538 to 485 million years ago in dark and low-oxygen ...

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 ...

Around half a billion years ago, in what is now the Yunnan Province of China, a tiny larva was trapped in mud. Hundreds of millions of years later, after the mud had long since become the black shales ...

The arthropod fossil used to describe a new species (left) and CT scans of the specimen (right) Luke Parry (photograph), Yu Liu, Ruixin Ran (3D models). Edited by Emily Lankiewicz Long ago, an unlucky ...

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 ...

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. For nearly two ...