Most fossils of the extinct creatures have no heads, but researchers analyzed complete fossils of juveniles and were able to ...

Scientists have unveiled the head of Arthropleura, the largest bug to ever exist, which roamed the Earth 300 million years ...

And it represents a species ancestral to the arthropods that teem all over our planet today – spiders, crabs, and insects. That means it can tell us things about the evolutionary history of these ...

During the Carboniferous Period, Earth's atmospheric oxygen levels surged, helping some plants and animals grow to gigantic ...

The face of Arthropleura, a car-sized, millipede-like creature and the largest arthropod to ever exist, has finally been unveiled.

They give cooling pain relief when they contact the skin. Mint can also help keep insects away, preventing future bites. Mints are also great for treating itching and the most painful of bites ...

This exquisite find also includes the earliest evidence yet of insect oviposition, in which eggs are laid from an ovipositor into or onto a surface. The scientists found lesions on a species of ...

This same condition is still met with in many insect larvæ. Adult arthropods, oil the other hand, with their hard exoskeletal body-plates, have acquired a secondary segmentation. This has been ...

So what do carpenter ants eat instead? They have an interesting diet of sweet liquids and discarded parts of dead insects. Some carpenter ants also hunt live insects. And when these tiny foragers ...

As the planet’s largest yearly gathering of insect scientists, the annual meeting of the Entomological Society of America will convene more than 3,500 experts, students, and practitioners to ...

(Alex Wenninger) Hometown, Alaska host Kim Sherry holds a display of insect specimens with entomologist Alex Wenninger at the Alaska Public Media studio. (Ammon Swenson/Alaska Public Media ...

Richard L. Lindroth received funding from the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, project 135G909 and from the U.S. Department of Agriculture McIntire-Stennis Program, grant WIS03003. Patricia C.