A research team from Munich has identified a previously unknown communication mechanism in harvestmen. Five closely related ...

An unusual fossil brain suggests that the ancestors of spiders and other arachnids may have once scuttled around the sea, rather than on land as was long thought, a new study finds. "It is still ...

Source: Maximilian Paradiz, via Wikimedia Commons. Distributed under a CC BY 2.0 license. Several years ago, biologist Daniel Wiegmann of Bowling Green State University decided he needed a new ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Tuesday an arachnid found only in Central Texas will stay on the endangered species list after a comprehensive review. The Bone Cave harvestman, ...

There’s an apocryphal story among J.R.R. Tolkien fans that the fantasy author’s villainous portrayals of spiders were inspired by a childhood incident when a tarantula bit him. In a better documented ...

Illustration of what the Mollisonia animal would have looked like at the time it lived, more than 500 million years ago. A new analysis of an exquisitely preserved fossil that lived half a billion ...

The public have been asked to look out for tiny bugs that could potentially help to protect Bermuda’s birds and bees. Mark Outerbridge, a wildlife ecologist, said in the summer edition of the ...