Researchers discovered a 520-million-year-old fossil of an arthropod named Youti yuanshi that still had its brain and guts ...

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 ...

A prehistoric predator once hailed as the world’s largest spider has been unmasked as something entirely different. More than ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. A newly discovered three-eyed relative is disappointingly unrelated ...

For nearly two centuries, scientists have tried to solve an enduring mystery about a giant millipede-like animal named Arthropleura that used its many legs to roam Earth more than 300 million years ...

Any way you look at it -- by sheer weight, species diversity or population -- the hard-shelled, joint-legged creepy crawlies called arthropods dominate planet Earth. Because of their success and ...

This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. As part of long-term research on the canopy of subtropical rain forest in southeast Queensland, we have compared three common techniques ...

Texas A&M AgriLife and the Office of Radiological Security at NNSA are teaming up against New World screwworm.

Lisa M. Ellis, Manuel C. Molles, Jr., Clifford S. Crawford and Frederick Heinzelmann The rapid naturalization of exotic saltcedar (Tamarix) trees in riparian ecosystems throughout the southwestern ...

Millipedes aren’t perhaps the world’s most sought-after animals, but in all those legs, there is chemical gold. The humble ...

Grazing is regarded as one particularly beneficial practice to biodiversity on farms, especially if it is practiced on ...