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There are an awful lot of insects. It’s hard to say exactly how many because 80 percent haven’t yet been described by taxonomists, but there are probably about 5.5 million species. Put that number ...

LOS ANGELES - Since the dawn of the biological sciences, mankind has struggled to comprehend the relationships among the major groups of "jointed-legged" animals — the arthropods. Now, a team of ...

Insect species are most diverse in the tropics, but are largely unresearched, with many species not described by science. But entomologists believe abundance is being impacted by climate change, ...

If you're reading this at home, you are currently surrounded by arthropods - invertebrates with exoskeletons and jointed legs. But just how many spiders, crustaceans and other creepy crawlies live in ...

More than 300 years ago, Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus began an ambitious effort to identify and name every living ...

Animals “discovered” land well over 450 million years ago. Arthropods (joint-footed) are the earliest known terrestrial animals. The evidence lies in the fossilized trackways of some type of arthropod ...

Scientists have recently discovered the fossil of a giant insect, providing a fascinating glimpse into a prehistoric world where such creatures roamed the Earth. This remarkable find offers new ...

Even “clean and normal” American homes are crawling with an average of about 100 species of arthropods, or insects and spiders, a team of researchers found. The researchers scoured 50 houses in North ...

Additionally, it possesses a unique labral chaetotaxy — the arrangement of bristles on its mouth — which clearly ...

All that glitters is not gold. But in the world of fossil discovery, a golden glitter is plenty of cause for celebration − even if it's not real. That was the case for Luke Parry, a paleobiology ...