Dr. Neurosaurus

A few weeks ago I talked about a fossil of the earliest spider relative. This week, I’m going to continue talking about arthropods (the group containing spiders, insects, scorpions, trilobites, crustaceans, millipedes, and others). In early April (2016), an [article] was published describing a new arthropod from the Silurian

Craters are scars left on the surface of a planet or moon, formed by meteorite impacts. These scars can tell us a lot about the geology of the planet or moon and they are usually very prominent. If you look at the moon, you can see dark and light areas.

The fossil record is full of gaps. This is because only a minor portion of life on Earth died in the right conditions to become a fossil. We, as paleontologists, work with the information we have to understand what Earth was like millions of years ago. We always hope to