Researchers have wondered how an alligator-size arthropod lived more than 300 million years ago. The discovery of an intact ...

Scientists knew that it had a millipede-like body, with two pairs of legs per segment, but Arthropleura ’s exact place in the ...

While the new fossils are not from fully grown Arthropleura, some of which reached 2.6 metres long, they reveal important ...

Researchers have shown that larger insects such as woodlice and beetles play as much of a crucial role in leaf litter ...

Vector-borne diseases are a significant global health challenge, accounting for approximately 17% of the estimated global ...

An analysis of leaf litter breakdown in climatically diverse habitats shows that decomposition by larger invertebrates dominates in hot, dry regions and warmer seasons. Researchers have shown that ...

The book consists of brief notes describing the appearances of a series of invertebrate animals before and during successive stages of dissection or development, as the case may be. Diagrammatic ...

Been fishing lately and seen a blob in the water? It could actually a colony of small animals. Here's what to know about the ...

Today, arthropods are a group that includes insects ... Greg Edgecombe, an expert in ancient invertebrates at London’s Natural History Museum, in a statement. From the fossils and treadlike ...

Arthropleura were huge, had a bunch of legs, and likely scavenged on dead bodies. How charming. And now we know what their ...