A creature smaller than a grain of rice may be the fastest backflipper on Earth, which is exactly the kind of fact that makes me want to go outside, scoop up a handful of leaf litter, and look a ...
Each spring, horseshoe crabs flood Delaware Bay to spawn, feeding migratory shorebirds and supplying medicine with their blue ...
The coconut crab, which is also known as the robber crab and Birgus latro, is not just the largest arthropod on our planet; ...
A journey into the wild will take center stage during an animal-themed event. Wild World of Animals will be presented at 3 ...
A paramedic by trade, Jerry Harvey was a wildlife rehabber for 40 years before opening his own center, Opie Acres. Although a ...
A long-neglected fossil seems to show the evolutionary leap that let the ancestors of today’s many-legged arthropods crawl forth from the seas.
In the realm of paleontology, discoveries that connect our understanding of ancient life to modern organisms provide invaluable insights into evolutionary history. Recently, scientists unveiled a ...
Arboviral diseases — also known as arthropod-borne viral diseases — are common worldwide. Roughly 17% of all infectious diseases are caused by arboviruses. These diseases are transmitted to humans by ...
Thousands of visitors swarmed the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences on Saturday for BugFest, the museum’s annual celebration of all things creepy-crawly, which this year spotlighted krill.
Those security checks at the airport may be an annoying nuisance to you, but they do result in discoveries sometimes, as was the case in Ben-Gurion Airport in Israel, where 140 reptiles and arthropods ...
An unusual fossil brain suggests that the ancestors of spiders and other arachnids may have once scuttled around the sea, rather than on land as was long thought, a new study finds. "It is still ...
In the realm of paleontology, discoveries that connect our understanding of ancient life to modern organisms provide invaluable insights into evolutionary history. Recently, scientists unveiled a ...