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

Domestic grazers are increasingly replacing wild herbivores in ecosystems around the world, leading to insidious changes in ...

Picture a primordial Earth: a world of muted browns, greys and greens. Fast forward to today, and Earth teems with a ...

What looks like a spider but isn’t one, lives underwater and breathes through its legs? That would be the mysterious sea ...

A recent paper provides an updated perspective on the evolutionary history of chelicerates—a diverse and ecologically ...

Spiders are declining in livestock-grazed areas, while ticks and mites are increasing. This change affects ecosystems and ...

A 15-year study in India's Spiti Valley revealed that replacing wild herbivores with livestock significantly affects ...

These included brachiopods, which lived in shells resembling those of clams or cockles, and animals with jointed, external skeletons known as arthropods—the ancestors of insects, spiders ...

Livestock grazing affects spider populations, altering ecosystems Spider decline raises risk of diseases spread by ticks and mites Increase in ...

Some species grew to more than six feet (two meters) in length and are considered the largest arthropods ever to have lived. Bearing a resemblance to their scorpion descendents, eurypterids had a ...