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 ...

THE decomposition of animals after death is of limited aesthetic appeal but very important. Several recent papers 1–5 have described aspects of the ecology of carrion on the soil surface or ...

But not even the most successful pub quiz participants I know were aware that technically, millipedes (and centipedes) aren’t ...

不管是否情愿，地质历史总在催促我们迈步向前。 中国是世界上古生物化石资料最为丰富的国家之一，不论是侏罗纪的义马银杏，还是寒武纪的巨大奇虾，抑或是中生代的霸主恐龙，都已经成为了令人遐想的过去。 不过中国又是一个讲究吃的国度，“能好怎”是刻在骨子里的疑问 ...

According to the city’s website, risk level 4 means the probability of a human outbreak is moderate to high. It triggers when ...

If the arthropod kingdom freaks you out, you might get a bit itchy learning about an Ontario species of beetle that feeds on ...

A study reveals that L.A. is a surprising hotspot for insect and spider biodiversity, with diversity driven more by proximity ...

His latest paper also makes it clear that woolly rhinoceroses belong on this list. Boeskorov is a senior researcher at the ...

Rumors of the giant flying Joro spider, landing in New Jersey this summer never materialized in the Garden State. But they ...

Some animals have evolved an ability to detect the invisible electrical fields that fill the world around us. This seemingly ...

Why go to Spirit Halloween and spend hundreds of dollars on a blowup spider when you can have this thing is in your backyard?

The rainy spring on Long Island provided rich breeding grounds for mosquitoes. The hot, relatively dry summer led mosquitoes ...