What started as routine fossil cleaning turned into a major scientific surprise when researchers uncovered a tiny claw in a 500-million-year-old specimen where no claw should exist. That detail ...

Researchers argue that a newly examined specimen found decades ago in Utah provides new clues to the ancestors of chelicerates before the group hit it big on land.

It had been a long day of teaching for Rudy Lerosey-Aubril. As a reward, he returned to cleaning an intriguing Cambrian ...

A Cambrian fossil has been identified as the oldest known member of the chelicerates, a group that includes spiders and scorpions. The specimen shows the earliest known example of a chelicera, a ...

An incredible fossil has become the oldest known chelicerate – the group of animals that includes spiders and scorpions.

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Named after French explorer Jacques Cousteau, Megachelicerax cousteaui is the oldest of its kind ever found, not to mention ...

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A fresh look at a fossil found more than 40 years ago points to the origins of a widespread group of arthropods called chelicerates. While that name might not sound familiar, its modern-day members ...