Discover the 25 insects that call human bodies their home. Learn about these tiny inhabitants, their symptoms, and how to ...

A new analysis of a specimen found more than 40 years ago reveals the oldest known chelicerate, defined by its pair of pincer ...

Researchers argue that a newly examined specimen found decades ago in Utah provides new clues to the ancestors of ...

This evening’s session at the 2026 American Academy of Dermatology Annual Meeting focused on an often-overlooked culprit in dermatology: arthropods. Titled “What’s Bugging You? Arthropods of ...

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 ...

Early arthropod specimens don’t have claws like these. Instead, Cambrian arthropods usually have an antenna in that position.

A 500-million-year-old fossil pulled from the Utah desert may be the earliest confirmed relative of spiders and scorpions, ...

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 ...

Scientists have discovered the oldest record of arthropods -- invertebrate animals that include insects, arachnids, and crustaceans -- preserved in amber. The specimens, one fly and two mites found in ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

During Earth’s Cambrian period 500 million years ago, the seas teemed with weird and fabulous critters. One of them, the radiodont, had a predatory appendage, toothy circular mouth and a segmented ...