Whether nectar-sucking butterflies or blood-sucking mosquitoes - the ingestion of liquid food has long been known for many insects and other arthropods. A research team now shows that millipedes also ...

University of Manchester research fellow David Legg, in collaboration with a team of international scientists from China, Switzerland, and Sweden, has today announced a new fossil that reveals the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An artistic reconstruction of Kylinxia, a relative of present day insects and crustaceans. “Most of our theories on how the head ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A reconstruction of Praearcturus gigas, the largest ever known scorpion at a little more than 3 feet. - Franz Anthony/Trustees of ...

A joint research team with members from China and overseas discovered a new freshwater arthropod in the Late Silurian stratum at the northwest margin of the Junggar Basin, Northwest China's Xinjiang ...

Students set sticky traps to collect organisms, identify and classify the organisms they find, and determine when the organisms first evolved. Every school and home contains organisms. Many are too ...

Scientists have discovered a new fossil that reveals the origin of gills in arthropods. University of Manchester research fellow David Legg, in collaboration with a team of international scientists ...