Rare fossils preserving the brains of creatures living more than half a billion years ago shed new light on the evolution of arthropods such as insects and crustaceans. Exquisitely preserved fossils ...

Forget honking Vs of geese or gathering herds of wildebeests. The biggest yearly mass movements of land animals may be the largely overlooked flights of aphids, moths, beetles, flies, spiders and ...

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Discoveries at a major new fossil site in Morocco suggest giant arthropods -- relatives of modern creatures including shrimps, insects and spiders -- dominated the seas 470 million years ago.

The number of species of phytophagous arthropods, mainly insects, on patches (islands) of bracken fern (Pteridium aquilinum) on the North Yorkshire Moors, England, declines as the islands get smaller.

Move over, Simone Biles. Nature’s gold medalist for backflips is a millimeter-tall arthropod that can barely straddle the tip of a pencil. “Nothing on Earth does a backflip faster than a globular ...

Western North American Naturalist, Vol. 74, No. 1 (June 2014), pp. 1-17 (17 pages) Prior to this study, there was no information on arthropods, bats, and other vertebrates of caves in ...

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CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Many species of ground-dwelling beetles, ladybugs, hoverflies, damsel bugs, spiders and parasitic wasps kill and eat pest species that routinely plague farmers, including aphids and ...