A team of researchers led by Associate Professor Luke Parry from the University of Oxford’s Department of Earth Sciences has unveiled a stunning 450-million-year-old fossil arthropod—a group that ...

The critter found in New York represents a new, extinct species of arthropod that could shed light on the evolution of today’s insects, crustaceans and spiders Margherita Bassi Daily ...

The work of one of the Natural History Museum’s researchers has been recognised in the name of a new species. The 450-million-year-old Lomankus edgecombei reveals that an ancient group of arthropods ...

(Parry et al., Curr. Biol., 2024) The animals were likely buried alive in huge dumps of sediment carried by events called turbidity currents, creating a very special set of conditions that allowed the ...

A new 450-million-year-old fossil arthropod, preserved in 3D by iron pyrite (fool’s gold), has been unveiled by scientists. The new species, Lomankus edgecombei, is distantly related to spiders ...

The striking fossil is a newly identified species of arthropod, a distant relative of modern-day horseshoe crabs, scorpions, and spiders, that slightly resembles a modern-day shrimp. The creature ...

A stunning 450-million-year-old fossil arthropod, perfectly preserved in fool’s gold or iron pyrite, has been unearthed. Thanks to the mineral pyrite, its exquisite preservation offers a glimpse ...

“Today, there are more species of arthropod than any other group of animals on Earth,” said Parry. “Part of the key to this success is their highly adaptable head and its ...

Learning that a shiny rock is fool’s gold rather than the valuable mineral is generally cause for disappointment. But for scientists who discovered a new 450-million-year-old arthropod preserved in ...

A team of researchers led by Associate Professor Luke Parry, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, have unveiled a spectacular new 450-million-year-old fossil arthropod (the group ...

A newly discovered 450-million-year-old fossil arthropod was found entirely preserved in pyrite–aka fool’s gold. The newly named species Lomankus edgecombei boasts a leg coming out of its head ...