This Ancient #Insect Had 24 Legs—and Could Help Explain How the Ancestors of Modern-Day Bugs Took Over the Land https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/this-ancient-insect-had-24-legs-and-could-help-explain-how-the-ancestors-of-modern-day-bugs-took-over-the-land-180989420/ The first #insects had way more than six legs https://www.science.org/content/article/first-insects-had-way-more-six-legs Amphibious stem-insect sheds light on colonization of land https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10961-2 "Chosha praecursor was somewhere between a crustacean and an insect—a possible missing link in the 80-million-year evolutionary gap."