A shimmering ancient fossil unearthed in New York state looks like a piece of finely crafted jewelry, but it’s also a portal ...

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

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

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.

A remarkable fossil discovery has unveiled a 450-million-year-old species preserved in a golden sheen of fool’s gold, or pyrite, in a rare preservation process that captures intricate details of soft ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

“They eat the leaves of Myrtaceae — a family of woody plants that includes eucalypts — because they have mouthparts with which they can separate toxic oils or a chemical detoxification system inside ...

The giant arthropod ‘Arthropleura', which roamed the Earth over 300 million years ago, combined traits of millipedes and centipedes, new fossils have revealed. These fossils, from juvenile ...