Villages, often separated from larger towns and cities, consist of clusters of households and a few public buildings. Despite ...

Pycnogonum litorale, adult male feeding on a sea anemone. C: Georg Brenneis The first high-quality pycnogonid genome provides ...

It's not easy to look at a sea spider and see an animal so representative of its kind that it may help scientists sort out ...

An international collaboration featuring the University of Vienna and the University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA) has led to ...

An international collaboration featuring the University of Vienna and the University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA) has led to the first-ever ...

Discusses arthropods, a diverse group of animals characterized by jointed legs, exoskeletons, and segmented bodies. It ...

A glob of 99 million-year-old amber has preserved an ancient fly in horror show fashion: with the mushroom-like fruiting body ...

The species belongs to a group of arthropods nicknamed "sea moths" that use a flap-like apparatus similar to wings to help them swim, the authors said in a statement.

A finger-sized fossil has shed new light on the diversity of ancient arthropods. More than 500 million years ago, many major animal groups first appeared on Earth in a burst of evolution known as the ...

It belongs to the arthropod group of animals, which accounts for about 84% of all known species that exist today, including insects, spiders and crabs.

Opilionids are an ancient group dating back at least 300–400 million years. Although more than 6,000 opilionid species are known worldwide, limited scientific research has been conducted upon ...

The 450-million-year-old Lomankus edgecombei reveals that an ancient group of arthropods known as the megacheirans lived on for longer than expected. A distant relative of spiders and scorpions is the ...