Oribatid mites, minuscule soil-dwelling creatures, have been decomposing organic matter for millions of years. With over ...

The findings reveal that insects developed modern patterns of herbivory long before flowering plants flourished, upending a ...

Discusses arthropods, a diverse group of animals characterized by jointed legs, exoskeletons, and segmented bodies. It ...

Picture a primordial Earth: a world of muted browns, greys and greens. Fast forward to today, and Earth teems with a ...

What looks like a spider but isn’t one, lives underwater and breathes through its legs? That would be the mysterious sea ...

It followed the fate of ants, wasps, bees, ticks, mites, spiders, grasshoppers, beetles and other arthropods in fenced and ...

School’s back and that means head lice will once again plague households with primary school-aged children. Here’s what you ...

The Florida Entomologist, Vol. 67, No. 3 (Sep., 1984), pp. 418-424 (7 pages) Small numbers of terrestrial arthropods were trapped in the water-filled leaf axils of the bromeliads Billbergia ...

Domestic grazers are increasingly replacing wild herbivores in ecosystems around the world, leading to insidious changes in ...

These included brachiopods, which lived in shells resembling those of clams or cockles, and animals with jointed, external skeletons known as arthropods—the ancestors of insects, spiders ...

Some species grew to more than six feet (two meters) in length and are considered the largest arthropods ever to have lived. Bearing a resemblance to their scorpion descendents, eurypterids had a ...

According to the ministry, a research team from the Department of Heritage Areas conducted a field study and collected sample ...