Rare evidence about the lives of an ancient group of arthropods has been uncovered in the U.S. The findings of the study are published in the journal Biology Letters. The cluster of cyclidan ...

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A mysterious 160-million-year-old crustacean had incredibly complex eyes similar to those of modern arthropods, a group that includes insects and other crustaceans, among other animals, a new study ...

Image adapted from the book cover of New Crustacean Species from the Phillipines. This week’s Mad Taxonomic Skillz challenge will utilize the awesome freely available resource for everything ...

A scientific collaboration has discovered previously unknown regularities of arthropod limbs based on studies of the remipede Speleonectes tulumensis, a rare crustacean found in saline waters of caves ...

Any way you look at it -- by sheer weight, species diversity or population -- the hard-shelled, joint-legged creepy crawlies called arthropods dominate planet Earth. Because of their success and ...

Being an arthropod, with an external skeleton and jointed limbs, is a good thing in evolutionary terms. But the question of how the main groups of arthropods are related remains a subject of intense ...

Rare evidence about the lives of an ancient group of arthropods has been uncovered in the USA. The cluster of cyclidan crustaceans, which has been preserved for hundreds of millions of years, shows ...