The first study to evaluate the biodiversity of arthropods in US homes finds that humans share their houses with any of more than 500 different kinds of arthropods -- at least on a short-term basis.

Arthropods have been among the most successful animals on Earth since the Cambrian Period, about 520 million years ago. They are the most familiar and ubiquitous, and constitute nearly 80% of all ...

Newly discovered fossils of a giant, extinct sea creature show it had modified legs, gills on its back, and a filter system for feeding -- providing key evidence about the early evolution of ...

For nearly two centuries, scientists have tried to solve an enduring mystery about a giant millipede-like animal named Arthropleura that used its many legs to roam Earth more than 300 million years ...

A new study from the rainforests of Panama provides an unprecedented level of detail regarding the diversity and distribution of arthropod species from the soil to the forest canopy. Yves Basset, ...

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It's hard to believe that a prehistoric sea creature the size of Shaquille O'Neal could teach us anything about a modern dust mite. But a 7-foot-long, 480-million-year-old marine animal called an ...

Do you know what the largest and most diverse group within the animal kingdom is? Arthropods, known for their segmented body parts, out number all the rest! This group includes insects, arachnids, ...

Editor's Note: This article was originally published at ScienceNordic. A new study has described the mouth apparatus of a half billion year old fossilised carnivore, the Pambdelurion, in fine detail ...

Panama’s San Lorenzo forest reserve is around the size of Manhattan. For two years, this small area was host to 102 scientists, working together to count everything that crept and crawled. They came ...