Chicago families can celebrate Halloween this October with free and low-cost events, from decorated houses to fall festivals and zoo activities. These outings give parents... Whether you have ...

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. Arthropods ...

An arthropod is an invertebrate animal having an exoskeleton (external skeleton), a segmented body, and jointed appendages. Arthropods are members of the phylum Arthropoda (from Greek ἄρθρον árthron, ...

It was only a little more than a century ago that the first great strides were taken in recognizing the role of arthropods as 'vectors' capable of transmitting pathogens that cause disease in humans ...

A recent study published in Current Biology discusses an almost perfectly preserved, 520-million-year-old arthropod fossil known as Kylinxia that was analyzed using a CT scanner, and could shed light ...

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

The arthropod Arthropleura is the largest known arthropod ever to inhabit the Earth. The giant arthropod ‘Arthropleura', which roamed the Earth over 300 million years ago, combined traits of ...

Suddenly this obscure, blind cave dweller has become extremely interesting. It turns out to be a close cousin of the most diverse group of animals on Earth, the insects. Insects–all ...

Despite differences in shape and size all insects are characterized by a body organization that includes three units: a head, thorax and abdomen (panels A-B). In contrast all spiders (and other ...

A tiny virus that may sting like a black widow spider. That is one of the surprise discoveries made by a pair of Vanderbilt biologists when they sequenced the genome of a virus that attacks Wolbachia, ...