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

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

A rare and stunning discovery in New York State has unveiled a 450-million-year-old fossil that provides valuable insights ...

That would be the mysterious sea spider. With over 1,300 species living in every ocean, these marine arthropods can have a ...

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

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

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

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 ...

Spiders are declining in livestock-grazed areas, while ticks and mites are increasing. This change affects ecosystems and ...

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 ...