arthropod

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Most arthropods with fossilized brains come from sites that are half a billion years old, where it is rare to get a good look at an animals’ visual processing system.

From New York Times

These moisture-loving arthropods are about half the size of a sesame seed and jump up to 25 times their body length when disturbed.

From Science Magazine

Yet even then the hush under water, where these creatures lived, was probably punctuated only by the skittering of arthropod feet across sand or the faint grinding of a cephalopod breaking a shell.

From Scientific American

An individual’s number of legs can vary because the arthropods grow additional body segments throughout their life.

From Science Magazine

He describes the shallow oceans of the early Cambrian period, for example, as being “filled with the spiky clatter of arthropod pincers.”

From Washington Post