The fossil was found in the Yu'anshan rock formation in Yunnan Province ... scientists to take a new look at the anatomy of ...

The new fossil, named Lomankus edgecombei, after arthropod expert Greg Edgecombe ... the famous "Beecher's Trilobite Bed"; a layer of rock containing multiple trilobites with incredible preservation.

In terms of sheer number of species, mollusks are second only to arthropods (the group ... can use CT scans to see parts of fossils still hidden in rock, essentially taking thousands of X-rays ...

The trilobite, an extinct marine arthropod vaguely resembling a horseshoe crab ... joining the North American land mass in a continental collision 400 million years ago. Studying the fossils of ...

In a report published Tuesday in the journal Current Biology, Parry and a team of researchers announced the fossil is a previously unknown species of arthropod − a category that includes spiders ...

It’s believed the fossil could be the missing link in a species of arthropod, or insect like ... time period that is represented by the rocks it was discovered in so it would actually fill ...

Photograph by James L. Amos The iconic arthropods of the Cambrian were the trilobites, which left a huge number of fossils. Trilobites had flattened, segmented, plated bodies that helped to ...