Area students entering grades seven through 10 can experience hands-on science this summer at Rookery Bay Research Reserve’s ...

Bee Meal' offers insight into a hidden macro world, where spiders change colors to match their surroundings – all to optimize ...

A virus that typically infects marine animals, such as shrimp and fish, has jumped to humans and is causing chronic eye ...

The fact that harvested razor clams are safe to consume and that digs haven’t been canceled as frequently as in previous ...

What started as routine fossil cleaning turned into a major scientific surprise when researchers uncovered a tiny claw in a ...

A Cambrian fossil has been identified as the oldest known member of the chelicerates, a group that includes spiders and scorpions. The specimen shows the earliest known example of a chelicera, a ...

Rudy Lerosey-Aubril A tiny claw in a 500-million-year-old fossil just rewrote the origin story of spiders. After a full da ...

Early arthropod specimens don’t have claws like these. Instead, Cambrian arthropods usually have an antenna in that position. In other words, the claws Lerosey-Aubril was seeing were not supposed to ...

Learn how a fossil from Utah’s Wheeler Formation reveals where early spider relatives lived, how quickly complex animal body ...

Aubril. As a reward, he returned to cleaning an intriguing Cambrian arthropod fossil he had recently received for review. At first, the specimen showed all the expected characteristics of its time—yet ...

Often treated as throwaway pets, hermit crabs can live 50 years. Mary Akers, a self-taught expert, wants people to appreciate them as much as she does. Credit... Supported by By Katie L. Burke and ...