Spiders, crabs, and other arthropods evolved from a group of animals that underwent a burst of diversity around 500 million ...

Arthropods belong to an evolutionary branch – the ecdysozoa – that contains about half of all animal species, and the earliest fossil evidence of the group now dates back 550 million years ...

The Atacama Trench, located off the coast of Peru and Chile, is one of the deepest oceanic regions on our planet, and ...

A catalogue of British fossil Crustacea : with their synonyms and the range in time of each genus and order / By Henry Woodward ... of the Department of Geology, British Museum.

Crawfish farmers and fishermen had a tough season in 2024. Mark Shirley with the LSU AgCenter said crawfish lovers should not ...

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Dec. 2, 2024 — Newly discovered insect fossils are so small they can barely be seen by the human eye but have been preserved in an 'extraordinary' ... A Fossil First: Scientists Find 1.5-Million ...

The boggy landscape of the Bering land bridge may have allowed some ice age animals to cross easily, while others stayed in ...

The fossil is of a small, worm-like creature named Uncus dzaugisi. The discovery fills a significant gap in the understanding of early animal evolution. “Scientists have hypothesized for decades that ...

A group of Swedish researchers have found that crabs feel pain and that their responses to uncomfortable stimuli are not simply reflex actions. Previous observational studies indicated that ...