A 444 million-year-old arthropod fossil, discovered 25 years ago, has been identified. The fossil, named Keurbos susanae, was ...

Professor Lars Schmitz joins WIRED to guide us through a giant tree of life mapping the evolution of eyes in the animal ...

Jana McConnell took this photo at Red Rock Canyon State Park of a Western Side-blotch Lizard sunning itself on a rock.

According to the study, arthropods make up about 85 percent of the animals on Earth and include lobsters, shrimp, centipedes, and spiders, among others. Arthropods have an extensive fossil record ...

A petition and letter-writing campaign is being launched in an effort to save the highly popular Insect Zoo at Iowa State University, which officials plan to close at semester’s end after three ...

The estimate of 5.5 million species of insects is interesting. What’s even more remarkable is that because scientists have ...

Paleontologists in England discovered the existence of a new marine species that roamed the Earth before the dinosaurs and ...

How do you keep natural enemies — the beneficial insects and other arthropods that prey on crop-damaging pests — in the ...

A spat between birds at a backyard birdfeeder highlights the sometimes fierce competition for resources that animals face in ...

Professor Jason Bond of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, described as “a powerhouse in the world of ...

Scientists on an icebreaker ship have captured a number of weird and wacky animals from Antarctica's ocean floor, including a ...