In a world-first pilot study, researchers from the University of South Australia have used video footage of insects to ...

A team of researchers at Michigan State University have discovered a new species of cockroach. This is the first time a ...

Arthropods make up the most species-rich and diverse group of animals on Earth, with numerous adaptations over 500 million years of evolution that have allowed them to exploit all major ecosystems.

There are few wild animals whose existence you could describe as ‘fun’, but a case could definitely be made for the peppermint stick insect.

The tiny 'backward' brain of an ancient sea creature hints that spider ancestors might have gotten their start in the ocean.

Learn how a fossil from approximately 500 million years ago traces the evolutionary origins of spiders, scorpions, and other ...

Finely preserved brain features in a tiny fossil suggest that spiders and their kin may have first evolved in the ocean ...

However, several Chengjiang arthropods have an unfamiliar morphology, are extremely rare, or are incompletely preserved, which often leads to many of these species being problematic, poorly known ...

A 520-million-year-old, five-eyed fossil reveals arthropod origin. Arthropods have been among the most successful animals on Earth since the Cambrian Period, about 520 million years ago.

Believe it or not, only five rooms out of 550 had no arthropods. Some species were common: cobweb spiders which were found in 65 percent of all rooms sampled.