A rare 520-million-year-old fossil with its internal organs still intact has been found. The fossilized sample — a tiny larva ...

You might not realize that all around you, an amazing show is going on. Many arthropods (insects, spiders, and relatives) have a secret: They glow under ultraviolet light. Lightning bugs and other ...

A remarkable fossilized larva has been discovered by scientists with its brain and guts still intact. The fossilized creature ...

Around half a billion years ago, in what is now the Yunnan Province of China, a tiny larva was trapped in mud. Hundreds of millions of years later, after the mud had long since become the black shales ...

Centipedes may look creepy, but they’re fascinating, ancient predators that play an important role indoors and out.

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

Understanding the way in which animals diversified and radiated during their early evolutionary history remains one of the most captivating of scientific challenges. Integral to this is the ‘Cambrian ...

Newly discovered fossils of a giant, extinct sea creature show it had modified legs, gills on its back, and a filter system for feeding — providing key evidence about the early evolution of arthropods ...