Let’s face it, some animals have cooler names than others. For example, how could the blobfish ever hope to compete with the ...

The study has been published in the European Journal of Taxonomy and describes four previously unknown species of parasitoid wasps belonging to the genus, Idris Förster (Hymenoptera Scelionidae) ...

A glob of 99 million-year-old amber has preserved an ancient fly in horror show fashion: with the mushroom-like fruiting body ...

According to the National Academy of Science the 3 new species use methane, with the help of bacteria, to get energy.

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Lomankus edgecombei, a new arthropod species from the Ordovician period has recently been discovered thanks to an international project featuring scientists from China, the UK and the US. The new ...

The arthropod fossil used to describe a new species (left) and CT scans of the specimen (right) Luke Parry (photograph), Yu Liu, Ruixin Ran (3D models). Edited by Emily Lankiewicz. Long ago, an ...

The species, which belongs to an extinct group called megacheira, was named after arthropod expert Greg Edgecombe, a merit researcher at London’s Natural History Museum. Other megacheirans used ...

The species, which belongs to an extinct group called megacheira, was named after arthropod expert Greg Edgecombe, a merit researcher at London’s Natural History Museum. Other megacheirans used ...

This new species of Lomankus is considered a megacheiran—an extinct class of arthropods that are defined by their spined great appendages. This diverse group thrived during the Cambrian Period ...