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• A last refuge for life remained after extinction
Amid the barren, empty sedimentary rocks Beatty found tracks left by hard-shelled arthropods, teeth from small fish, and the burrows of ancient crustaceans that would rival their modern descendants, lobsters, in size. "We see as many as 23 different ...
• Fossils tell of mass exodus from sea to land
From fossil tracks found in Ontario, Canada, researchers know that a group of insect-like creatures called arthropods were crawling on sand dunes around this time. But how they migrated from the ocean to the dunes — and when — is still a mystery.
• Fossils tell of mass exodus from sea to land
From fossil tracks found in Ontario, Canada, researchers know that a group of insect-like creatures called arthropods were crawling on sand dunes around this time.
• Ancient mammals had modern teeth - LiveScience- msnbc.com
... mammal had strong limb bones, likely for digging, and could feed on insects and plants. Here it's portrayed as foraging among ginkgo leaves and the scattered shells of arthropods ...
• Animal eyes inspire new technology - Science Mysteries- msnbc.com
... is progressing much faster with compound eyes, which are made up of many individual lenses (as many as ten thousand in some dragonflies) and found in insects and other arthropods.