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A rare crab known for its bright blue color and giant size hasn’t been spotted on an Indian Ocean island following a deadly ...

Cavers encountered a massive blue crab in a cavern in India, marking the first time the at-risk species had been spotted in ...

Lone star ticks gained their name from the white spot on the back of adult females. They are one of the first tick species to ...

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Horsehair worms can grow up to a foot long and manipulate host insects — and sometimes show up in toilets — but are harmless ...

The sometimes uncomfortable sensations we feel in our teeth may be an evolutionary holdover from the scaly exteriors of ...

Many studies over the past twenty years have documented the richness of arthropod galling species around the world, and some have proposed hypotheses to explain local and global patterns of galling ...

For more than a century, the Cambrian arthropod Helmetia expansa remained a mystery. Discovered in 1918 by paleontologist Charles Doolittle Walcott, it was initially identified as a crustacean.

It belongs to the arthropod group of animals, which accounts for about 84% of all known species that exist today, including insects, spiders and crabs. Paleontologist Sarah Gabbott explains what's ...

This work was supported by the National Key R&D Program of China (No. 2023YFD1400800) and the Zhejiang Key Research and Development Program of China (Nos. 2020C02001 ...