Here’s how an arthropod pulls off the world’s fastest backflip. Springtails can reach a spin rate of 368 rotations per second in the blink of an eye.

Many present-day arthropods, such as crustaceans, have combined these two flaps, forming legs. “You can then connect muscles between those different segments,” says Van Roy.

Researchers have wondered how an alligator-size arthropod lived more than 300 million years ago. The discovery of an intact Arthropleura head offers new insights.

The species belongs to a group of arthropods nicknamed "sea moths" that use a flap-like apparatus similar to wings to help them swim, the authors said in a statement.The mechanism gives the ...

“The evolution of biramous appendages revealed by a carapace-bearing Cambrian arthropod,” Phil Trans R Soc B, 377:20210034, 2022. Ancestral Bacteria May Have Invaded Early Eukaryotic Cells . Prev. Now ...

This Bizarre Creature Flew Its Babies Like Kites. In a first for arthropods, the spiny animal kept its brood tethered to its body as it swam Earth’s seas 430 million years ago.

Way, way, way back then and now. Given its physical characteristics, the researchers think that Y. yuanshi displays features of both extinct and extant arthropods.Some are ancestral ...

Researchers have wondered how an alligator-size arthropod lived more than 300 million years ago. The discovery of an intact Arthropleura head offers new insights.

New fossils show what the ancestral brains of arthropods looked like Date: August 20, 2021 Source: University of Arizona Summary: Rare fossils preserving the brains of creatures living more than ...

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

Researchers have wondered how an alligator-size arthropod lived more than 300 million years ago. The discovery of an intact Arthropleura head offers new insights.