THE decomposition of animals after death is of limited aesthetic appeal but very important. Several recent papers 1–5 have described aspects of the ecology of carrion on the soil surface or ...

Move over, Simone Biles. Nature’s gold medalist for backflips is a millimeter-tall arthropod that can barely straddle the tip of a pencil. “Nothing on Earth does a backflip faster than a ...

An exceptionally preserved fossil unveils the internal anatomy of an arthropod ancestor. This specimen, discovered in China, ...

不管是否情愿，地质历史总在催促我们迈步向前。 中国是世界上古生物化石资料最为丰富的国家之一，不论是侏罗纪的义马银杏，还是寒武纪的巨大奇虾，抑或是中生代的霸主恐龙，都已经成为了令人遐想的过去。 不过中国又是一个讲究吃的国度，“能好怎”是刻在骨子里的疑问 ...

Scutigeromorpha are an ancient group of centipedes that have existed for over 400 million years. Historical events such as ...

According to the city’s website, risk level 4 means the probability of a human outbreak is moderate to high. It triggers when ...

Rumors of the giant flying Joro spider, landing in New Jersey this summer never materialized in the Garden State. But they ...

Some animals have evolved an ability to detect the invisible electrical fields that fill the world around us. This seemingly ...

His latest paper also makes it clear that woolly rhinoceroses belong on this list. Boeskorov is a senior researcher at the ...

So many stories, so little time. At least it feels like that when trying to stay atop news from around the National Park ...

Why go to Spirit Halloween and spend hundreds of dollars on a blowup spider when you can have this thing is in your backyard?

The rainy spring on Long Island provided rich breeding grounds for mosquitoes. The hot, relatively dry summer led mosquitoes ...