Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. A newly discovered three-eyed relative is disappointingly ...

The University of Wisconsin Insect Diagnostic Lab Director PJ Liesch, also known as the Wisconsin Bug Guy, studies several insect species across the state of Wisconsin. Liesch’s interest in insects ...

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 ...

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 ...

Move over, Simone Biles. Nature’s gold medalist for backflips is a millimeter-tall arthropod that can barely straddle the tip of a pencil. “Nothing on Earth does a backflip faster than a globular ...

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 ...

Scientists have discovered a new fossil that reveals the origin of gills in arthropods. University of Manchester research fellow David Legg, in collaboration with a team of international scientists ...

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 ...

Fossil specimen of Stanleycaris hirpex. Dark material inside the head is the remains of nervous tissue, specimen ROMIP 65674.1. Photo by Jean-Bernard Caron © Royal ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An artistic reconstruction of Kylinxia, a relative of present day insects and crustaceans. “Most of our theories on how the head ...