A remarkable fossilized larva has been discovered by scientists with its brain and guts still intact. The fossilized creature ...

For years, a mysterious fossil specimen defied categorization, until one paleontologist made a surprising discovery.

For over a century, the Cambrian arthropod Helmetia expansa remained a mystery. Discovered by paleontologist Charles ...

and a group of scientists and science educators brainstormed ways to bring the scientific research experience into classrooms. As Wolbachia-Project scientists, the participants can collect and ...

Rare evidence about the lives of an ancient group of arthropods has been uncovered in the U.S. The findings of the study are published in the journal Biology Letters. The cluster of cyclidan ...

This new crop of fossils suggests that it also had a simple brain structure compared to modern-day arthropods, which flies in the face of previous theories. In today’s arthropods, a one-part ...

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 ...

Since the 1970s, populations of arthropods—a group of animals that includes exoskeleton ... That’s a decline of 99 percent, according to Science. Also during that period, the temperature in the forest ...

Pellitteri was a pre-med student and after four semesters of taking chemistry and other various medical science courses, he decided to take classes within other academic realms. This included ...

issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Yves Basset at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama City, Republic of Panama, and colleagues was titled, “Arthropod Diversity ...

This site, located at nmrare.org, is designed to educate and inform users about rare, endemic, and threatened arthropod species in New Mexico. The platform aims to compile information on these ...