Newly discovered fossils fill a gap in scientists’ knowledge of how arthropods evolved their legs. The extinct creatures’ limblike flaps represent a stage before the two parts fused into the limbs ...

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 ...

The evolutionary innovations of insects and other arthropods are as numerous as they are wondrous, from terrifying fangs and stingers to exquisitely colored wings and ingenious feats of engineering.

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 ...

Peter Van Roy receives funding from the National Science Foundation ( NSF Grant EAR-1053247) and the Division of Invertebrate Paleontology of the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History. During the ...

Do you know what the largest and most diverse group within the animal kingdom is? Arthropods, known for their segmented body parts, out number all the rest! This group includes insects, arachnids, ...

Chris Marshall started collecting insects as a little kid, and he still finds them endlessly fascinating. “I’ve always been a bug person,” he confessed. And now, as the curator and collection manager ...

Insects and spiders often receive little attention from people, except when we're swatting them away. However, as arthropods - creatures distinguished by a hard exoskeleton and jointed legs - they ...

An international team of scientists report in the journal Genome Biology results from a pilot project, co-led by Robert Waterhouse, Group Leader at the SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics and ...