video: The evolutionary innovations of insects and other arthropods are as numerous as they are wondrous, from terrifying fangs and stingers to exquisitely coloured wings and ingenious feats of ...

Researchers formally describe Helmetia expansa, offering new insights into its anatomy, behavior and evolutionary relationships. For over a century, the Cambrian arthropod Helmetia expansa remained a ...

Around half a billion years ago, in what is now the Yunnan Province of China, a tiny larva was trapped in mud. Hundreds of millions of years later, after the mud had long since become the black shales ...

Surprising new research shows that, contrary to conventional belief, remains of chitin-protein complex–structural materials containing protein and polysaccharide–are present in abundance in fossils of ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Paleontologists have unraveled a mystery surrounding a bizarre, ...

Researchers in the U.K. have found the fossilized exoskeleton of the largest arthropod to have ever lived. These giant millipede-like creatures were the length of a car and likely roamed Earth during ...

A tiny fossil of a sea creature that lived more than half a billion years ago sheds new light on the evolution of arthropods, the most species-rich and successful group of animals to inhabit Earth, ...

Is your kid interested in creepy, crawly insects and other arthropods? If the answer is yes, they’ll want to check out a free coloring book created by the entomologist who directs North Carolina State ...

Anyone who has ever squirmed through a dental cleaning can tell you how sensitive teeth can be. This sensitivity gives important feedback about temperature, pressure—and yes, pain—as we bite and chew ...

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Can you imagine seeing a giant millipede the same size as a car? Well, a massive creature just like this existed 340 million years ago. As a result of two fossils being discovered, we now know what ...