This is definitely one creature you wouldn’t want to run into in a dark alley, at least if you were around 500 million years ago. There was only one opabiniid species thought to have existed. Opabinia ...

For nearly two centuries, scientists have tried to solve an enduring mystery about a giant millipede-like animal named Arthropleura that used its many legs to roam Earth more than 300 million years ...

Minecraft has a lot of different types of creatures, but arthropods are perhaps the strangest category. Undead like zombies and skeletons come in a lot of forms but share a lot of traits as a family ...

Scientists have discovered a new fossil that reveals the origin of gills in arthropods. University of Manchester research fellow David Legg, in collaboration with a team of international scientists ...

What better way to combine the spooky and the scientific than exploring real bones and skeletons from endemic Massachusetts ...

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