Focused on Cambrian fossils, the study reanimates a species long trapped in the pages of forgotten paleontology.

A mysterious fossilized creature discovered more than a century ago has finally been decoded, offering stunning insights into ...

Researchers formally describe Helmetia expansa, offering new insights into its anatomy, behavior and evolutionary relationships.

For over a century, scientists have been puzzled by a mysterious fossil called Helmetia expansa, an ancient arthropod from ...

The new study found the characteristics in Helmetia expansa differed from previous studies. It is said that these species had ...

For over a century, the Cambrian arthropod Helmetia expansa remained a mystery. Discovered by paleontologist Charles Doolittle Walcott in 1918, it was ...

“We are now sure she was a primitive marine arthropod, but her precise evolutionary relationships remain frustratingly elusive.” Sarah Gabbott, the study’s lead author and a professor in the School of ...

"Molting is the period of an arthropod's life when it's most vulnerable," he says. "While its soft shell is exposed, the animal is in danger from predators or, in some cases, even hungry cannibals ...

Filmed in the **Louisiana bayou**, the documentary follows the **life cycle of a crayfish**, from **fertilized egg to adulthood**, showcasing its growth, molting, and survival adaptations.

Flies of both sexes were randomized and fed to the mantises. The mantises were not disturbed during molting and were left untouched and unfed 24 h afterwards. In contrast to the young mantises ...

Since the 1970s, populations of arthropods—a group of animals that includes exoskeleton-bearing critters such as insects, spiders, centipedes, and millipedes—in the Puerto Rican rainforest have ...