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. Early evidence ...

A new dataset documents arthropods collected in six organic orchards and adjacent hedgerows on Terceira Island in the Azores, ...

Arthropods crawl and buzz around us in the wild and on farmlands, on the street and at home, under our floors and in our plumbing systems, even in our food and on our bodies. But while we often are ...

Many creatures, great and small, call grasslands their home, including the most diverse and abundant animals: arthropods! In Warren County, Virginia, Virginia Working Landscapes scientists, ...

Around half a billion years ago, in what is now the Yunnan Province of China, a tiny larva was trapped in mud. Hundreds of millions of years later, after the mud had long since become the black shales ...

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A standardised field survey inventoried terrestrial arthropods at 48 sampling points across nine Natura 2000 protected areas ...

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 ...

A new study reveals that beetles, wasps and other beneficial arthropods are nearly twice as abundant and diverse in uncultivated field edges in the spring as they are in areas that are cropped - if ...

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When cockroaches infest a kitchen or bedbugs take over a mattress, human residents notice. But it turns out there are plenty of other six- and eight-legged creatures that more subtly coopt our homes.