New study suggests the massive spiders are gentle giants, mean people no harm. The Joro spider, despite its intimidating size and rapid spread across Southeastern…
New fossil site in Taichoute, Morocco, suggests giant arthropods, up to 2 meters long, dominated the seas 470 million years ago. The site offers new…
Researchers investigating the effects of urbanization on insects have discovered that certain bugs are more well-suited to thrive in urban settings than others. Amidst the…
Welsh “weird wonder” fossils provide new clues to the history of arthropod evolution. The most famous fossils from the Cambrian explosion of animal life, which…
In his book Wonderful Life, the late Stephen Jay Gould, former professor in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard, popularized the “weird…
The discovery of the first millipede with more than 1,000 legs is reported in Scientific Reports this week. Prior to this, no millipede had been…
Newly discovered fossils of an extinct sea creature named Aegirocassis benmoulae provide key evidence about the early evolution of arthropods. A presentation by Dr. Peter…
For two years in the Panamanian tropics, entomologists have been laboring in cranes, gliding amongst treetops using helium-filled balloons, hiking through the jungle at night,…
A new fossil discovery captures a previously unseen stage in the evolution of ancient arthropods, providing confirmation of the loss of a limb branch during…
Arthropods from the Triassic period have been discovered preserved in amber. They are 100 million years older than previous amber inclusions. The two mites and…