Researchers have detected previously overlooked eyes whose form and function could help to improve the evolutionary classification of archaic arthropods. Trilobites, prehistoric sea creatures, had ...

An international team of researchers led by Prof. MA Keping from the Institute of Botany of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IBCAS) has shown that forests with higher tree species richness tend to ...

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“The truth is that we’re all living with this vast diversity of arthropods and the majority of them are not overtly harmful,” study coauthor Michelle Trautwein of the California Academy of Sciences ...

Many people use 'bug' and 'insect' interchangeably. Scientifically, insects are a broad class. True bugs are a specific order ...

Most of the fossils that we find in Earth's crust are preserved in sedimentary rock, where layers of mineral cover an organism and, over eons, harden into stone, dead beastie impression and all. But ...

Rare fossils preserving the brains of creatures living more than half a billion years ago shed new light on the evolution of arthropods. Exquisitely preserved fossils left behind by creatures living ...