It can be pretty scary finding any sort of spider in your bath but imagine coming across one that has a leg span of 12 inches ...

A fossil smaller than a human fingernail has revealed a complete ancient brain, turning a speck of stone into a detailed map ...

Understanding the evolution of insect mating behavior is essential for explaining how early insects adapted to life on land.

Although the defecation site is typically near the entrance at the edge of the nest, the mites were prompted to defecate at the centre of the nest using an ether extract of the host plant leaves. The ...

Imagine a millipede so large it could be mistaken for a small car. That was Arthropleura, the largest land arthropod known to science. Fossils show it roamed the Carboniferous forests, feeding on ...

Researchers at University of Tsukuba have discovered the adaptive significance of the remarkable waste-management behavior in the social spider mite Stigmaeopsis longus, a tiny herbivorous arthropod ...

Measuring our own heart rate seems like a straightforward idea, but how would you go about taking the pulse of a grasshopper or a spider? A new technique has been developed to measure the heart rate ...

1 Above-Belowground Interactions Group, Institute of Biology, Sylviusweg, Leiden, Netherlands 2 Natural Products Laboratory, Institute of Biology Leiden, Sylviusweg, Leiden, Netherlands Many vascular ...

ABSTRACT: Thermal power plants are present in the Brazilian electrical matrix (8% in 2022) and worldwide (61.5% in 2021). Combustion engines are used to drive generators in most thermal power plants, ...

The arthropod fossil used to describe a new species (left) and CT scans of the specimen (right) Luke Parry (photograph), Yu Liu, Ruixin Ran (3D models). Edited by Emily Lankiewicz Long ago, an unlucky ...

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