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A joint research team with members from China and overseas discovered a new freshwater arthropod in the Late Silurian stratum at the northwest margin of the Junggar Basin, Northwest China's Xinjiang ...

More than 500 million years ago, strange creatures with segmented bodies roamed the ocean floors. Among them were trilobites, ancient arthropods whose hard exoskeletons are well known to ...

Students set sticky traps to collect organisms, identify and classify the organisms they find, and determine when the organisms first evolved. Every school and home contains organisms. Many are too ...

Researchers at University of Tsukuba have discovered the adaptive significance of the remarkable waste-management behavior in ...

A new study from the rainforests of Panama provides an unprecedented level of detail regarding the diversity and distribution of arthropod species from the soil to the forest canopy. Yves Basset, ...

Whether nectar-sucking butterflies or blood-sucking mosquitoes - the ingestion of liquid food has long been known for many insects and other arthropods. A research team now shows that millipedes also ...

Several diseases are caused by viruses, bacteria, or even parasites. Sometimes, these microorganisms cannot infect humans (or other animals) by themselves, so they rely on other organisms -called ...

A new study will help researchers understand how to make predictions and conservation decisions about how organisms living in cities will respond to catastrophic weather events. A study led by Amy ...

An artistic reconstruction of Kylinxia, a relative of present day insects and crustaceans. “Most of our theories on how the head of arthropods evolved were based on these early-branching species ...

Students set sticky traps to collect organisms, identify and classify the organisms they find, and determine when the organisms first evolved. Every school and home contains organisms. Many are too ...