Scientists Found a Hairy-Legged Sea Spider With a Nightmare Mouth
A photo of a new species of sea spider Tanystylum kiixin. Credit: Cormac Toler-Scott Two newly described Salish…
World’s largest scorpion identified, roamed Earth 415 million years ago
The University of Manchester has discovered that the world’s largest scorpion, which lived 415 million years ago, was…
Streetlights Are Trapping Thousands of Isopods in Mysterious “Death Spirals”
Habitus of isopods collected during aggregative behavior in Eliad. Credit: Idan Sheizaf, Ariel Chipman, and Eviatar Itzkovich Artificial…
500‑million‑year‑old fossil helps fill a strange gap in our record of life on Earth
Roughly 500 million years ago, a strange event in the evolution of life on Earth seems to have…
490-Million-Year-Old Arthropod Fossil Fills Puzzling Gap in Fossil Record
A new species of corcoraniid arthropod that lived during the Furongian epoch, between 497 and 487 million years…
500-Million-Year-Old Fossil Identified as Oldest Known Chelicerate
Paleontologists at Harvard University have described a large predatory arthropod from the Middle Cambrian of Utah featuring massive…