Horseshoe crabs first developed 540 million years ago in the Paleozoic era, more closely related to arachnids than crabs. The amazing arthropods lived through the age and extinction of dinosaurs ...

These tiny arachnids are so small you can barely see them, yet they can cause massive damage by piercing plant tissues and sucking out its vital juices. Spider mites love the exact conditions most ...

A large, multicolored orb arachnid, called the Joro spider, is causing a stir in the media thanks to its arrival and rapid spread across the United States (U.S.). Read on to find out where this ...

While identifying 132 new species of vertebrates and 309 new species of arachnids last year, Chinese scientists found 284 new plant species and also spotted another four plant species that had not ...

Given that brown recluse spiders are among the most dangerous arachnids, it is important for those who live in areas where they are common to know what to do if they encounter one. If the brown ...

America has a tick problem. While the overall number of ticks may not be increasing annually, the species of ticks that call particular regions of the nation home have changed. Previously, only one or ...

We never got an answer to the glue question, but it took an excessive amount of takes to nail the scene, and the entire experience left Shatner with a lingering phobia of large arachnids. What was ...

The eight-legged parasitic creatures are not insects, but rather arachnids, more closely related to mites and spiders. Michigan State University professor and disease ecology expert Dr. Jean Tsao ...

Phylogenetic relationships within the liolaemid lizard genus Phymaturus were studied using parsimony analysis of morphological data. The data set includes 133 characters: 28 described in the ...

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