An international team of researchers have made an extremely rare discovery of a species of animal - related to crabs, lobsters and shrimps – that is new to science.
Archaeology
Dec 11, 2012
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Small bivalved crustacean ostracods are the most abundant fossil arthropods since the Ordovician and play an important role in paleoenvironmental reconstruction and evolutionary biology.
Archaeology
Sep 15, 2020
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A geologist from the University of Leicester is part of a team that has uncovered an ancient water flea-like creature from 425 million years ago - only the third of its kind ever to be discovered in ancient rocks.
Archaeology
Mar 22, 2010
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Ostracoda is one of the most widespread and diverse groups of crustaceans since the Early Ordovician. The subclass Podocopa are the most abundant ostracods during the Palaeozoic. However, its origin, evolution, ontogeny and ...
Evolution
Feb 14, 2023
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The small ostracod Ankylocythere sinuosa measures no more than half a millimetre in length and lives on other crayfish. And, Spanish scientists have discovered it for the first time in Europe. The finding suggests that it ...
Ecology
Sep 11, 2012
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