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 ...

One of the last remaining enigmas surrounding arthropod evolution has been the split of the tree of life, separating the two largest groups of arthropods: mandibulates, the group including insects, ...

A recent study published in Current Biology discusses an almost perfectly preserved, 520-million-year-old arthropod fossil known as Kylinxia that was analyzed using a CT scanner, and could shed light ...

A new study led by researchers at Durham University have uncovered an incredibly rare and detailed fossil, named Youti yuanshi, that gives a peek inside one of the earliest ancestors of modern insects ...