A new fossil find reveals that in an ancient arthropod species, no animal was an island. The discovery of 525-million-year-old fossils belonging to a new species of arthropod shows that these animals ...

The arthropods are one of the most familiar and ubiquitous of all animal groups. They have far more species than any other phylum, yet the living species are merely the surviving branches of a much ...

"Arthropod" (phylum Arthropoda) is a collective term comprising insects, arachnids, and crustaceans, commonly referred to in the vernacular as "bugs." Although arthropods make up the majority of all ...

Scientists have discovered a new fossil that reveals the origin of gills in arthropods. University of Manchester research fellow David Legg, in collaboration with a team of international scientists ...

Scientists from the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) have discovered a new species of Diplura in the eastern Himalayas, ...

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 ...