This is definitely one creature you wouldn’t want to run into in a dark alley, at least if you were around 500 million years ago. There was only one opabiniid species thought to have existed. Opabinia ...

Researchers discovered a 520-million-year-old fossil of an arthropod named Youti yuanshi that still had its brain and guts ...

For nearly two centuries, scientists have tried to solve an enduring mystery about a giant millipede-like animal named Arthropleura that used its many legs to roam Earth more than 300 million years ...

Any way you look at it -- by sheer weight, species diversity or population -- the hard-shelled, joint-legged creepy crawlies called arthropods dominate planet Earth. Because of their success and ...

This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. As part of long-term research on the canopy of subtropical rain forest in southeast Queensland, we have compared three common techniques ...

Lisa M. Ellis, Manuel C. Molles, Jr., Clifford S. Crawford and Frederick Heinzelmann The rapid naturalization of exotic saltcedar (Tamarix) trees in riparian ecosystems throughout the southwestern ...

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