Luke Parry (photograph), Yu Liu, Ruixin Ran (3D models) The glittering fossil can also shed light on a question that ...

A new 450-million-year-old fossil arthropod, preserved in 3D by iron pyrite (fool’s gold), has been unveiled by scientists.

“Even if it had some centipede mouthparts, its trunk anatomy seems ... affected its locomotion and implies it was a rather slow arthropod.” After piling together all these lines of evidence ...

Arthropods include modern spiders ... great appendage is likely the equivalent of the antenna of insects and the mouthparts–or chelicerae–of spiders and scorpions. “These beautiful new ...

A new 450-million-year-old arthropod fossil, Lomankus edgecombei, has been uncovered in New York, revealing crucial ...

Today, arthropods are a group that includes insects ... including its stalked eyes, mandibles and mouthparts. - Lheritier et al., Sci. Adv. 10, eadp6362 (2024) The 3D scans revealed two nearly ...

A team of researchers led by Associate Professor Luke Parry , Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, have unveiled a spectacular new ...

A creature that scuttled along the seafloor 450 million years ago has been preserved in a rare and striking fossil that ...

Arthropleura is an enormous arthropod—one of a group of invertebrates ... “Even if it had some centipede mouthparts, its ...

Now, two well-preserved fossils of the creature unearthed in France have finally revealed what Arthropleura’s head looked like, providing insights into how the giant arthropod lived. Today ...

The arrangement of features on the species’ head was similar to that of living arthropods, which means its appendages are the ancient equivalent of insect antennae or the mouthparts of scorpions ...