video: The evolutionary innovations of insects and other arthropods are as numerous as they are wondrous, from terrifying fangs and stingers to exquisitely coloured wings and ingenious feats of ...

Researchers used microCT to study and re-study arthropod fossils from the early Cambrian in the Chengjiang biota in the Yunnan Province of China. Their latest study shows with unprecedented clarity ...

This is definitely one creature you wouldn’t want to run into in a dark alley, at least if you were around 500 million years ago. There was only one opabiniid species thought to have existed. Opabinia ...

Organismic and Evolutionary Biology assistant professor Javier Ortega-Hernández, as part of a team of international paleontologists, has discovered a new shrimp-like species originating from the early ...

The arthropod fossil used to describe a new species (left) and CT scans of the specimen (right) Luke Parry (photograph), Yu Liu, Ruixin Ran (3D models). Edited by Emily Lankiewicz Long ago, an unlucky ...

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 ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Many species of ground-dwelling beetles, ladybugs, hoverflies, damsel bugs, spiders and parasitic wasps kill and eat pest species that routinely plague farmers, including aphids and ...