The film discusses the diverse group of animals known as arthropods, which includes over a million species, making them the most successful group of animals in terms of habitat variety and species ...

A recent paper provides an updated perspective on the evolutionary history of chelicerates—a diverse and ecologically significant group of arthropods that includes spiders, scorpions, mites, and ...

With midterms, papers due, and scheduling office hours, the biodiversity of the UVic campus invites students to be grounded ...

Domestic grazers are increasingly replacing wild herbivores in ecosystems around the world, leading to insidious changes in ...

Sea spiders look like arachnids living underwater, but they are not the same. They are marine arthropods in the class Pycnogonida and are called pycnogonids. However, they are related to spiders ...

These terrestrial pioneers were arthropods, such as primitive centipedes and arachnids, the ancestors of spiders. The first true plants began to take root on land some 430 million years ago.

A long-term study carried out in the Spiti valley of the Himalayas shows that this replacement can drastically influence the numbers of ground-dwelling arthropods like spiders, as well as that of ...