The new species, called Tityus achilles (T. achilles), was discovered in the department of Cundinamarca in Colombia, in the mountainous Magdelena rainforest region. It is unique and requires ...

The University of New Mexico has a new tool in their toolbox to help with Arthropod conservation. NMrare.org is a new website ...

Insects benefit from storm devastation, says a 20-year study by the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape ...

The University of New Mexico's Museum of Southwestern Biology, Natural Heritage New Mexico, and the New Mexico BioPark Society have announced the launch of a new website, the New Mexico Rare Arthropod ...

Horseshoe crabs are often referred to as the "living fossils" of our planet—the four known species, including three in Asia and one in North America, remain nearly identical to their ancient relatives ...

No matter how many buildings a student has had to traverse to attend classes, there remain parts of campus that have never ...

The deadly Sydney funnel-web is three distinct species – not one, as previously thought, scientists have confirmed. Spider experts have long suspected the Sydney funnel-web was more than one species ...

Australia has one of the world's highest rates of extinctions with about 100 species of flora and fauna lost since European colonisation. There were 42 new additions to the national list of ...

Ecdysozoans include arthropods (such as insects and crabs), nematodes (roundworms), and smaller groups like kinorhynchs (“mud dragons”) and priapulids (“penis worms”). Their central nervous systems, ...