Insectropolis in Toms River offers hands-on insect education with live bug interactions, interactive exhibits, and ...

The tiny 'backward' brain of an ancient sea creature hints that spider ancestors might have gotten their start in the ocean.

Finely preserved brain features in a tiny marine arthropod fossil suggest that arachnids – spiders and their close kin – may ...

Finely preserved brain features in a tiny marine arthropod fossil suggest that arachnids – spiders and their close kin – may have first evolved in the ocean rather than on land, say scientists.

One of the creepiest, crawliest creatures of the Earth may have been swimming before adapting to live on land, new research suggests.

This will be Shafali Verma's third tour of England, but a lot has changed since the previous ones. For starters, she is not a teenager anymore. When Shafali first toured England for the multi ...

These kinds of sexual signals also may have evolved hundreds of times across vertebrates and arthropods, the researchers found, but unlike warning colors, these cues exist only in species with color ...

The ascidian Ciona, a genus of sea squirts, undergoes metamorphosis from active, tadpole-like larvae to sessile adults. Metamorphosis begins when Ciona larvae attach themselves to rocks or other ...

ALL species of insects which have been critically investigated require a dietary sterol for optimum growth 1. Clark and Bloch 2 concluded that the inability to synthesize sterols is probably a ...