This evening’s session at the 2026 American Academy of Dermatology Annual Meeting focused on an often-overlooked culprit in dermatology: arthropods. Titled “What’s Bugging You? Arthropods of ...

A fossil originally discovered in the 1980s only recently received a closer look, revealing groundbreaking evolutionary ...

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

Animal life began in aquatic environments more than 600 million years ago. Around 500 million years ago, during the Cambrian ...

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 ...

A Utah fossil shows early relatives of spiders and scorpions already had distinctive front claws 500 million years ago.

Global rewilding efforts can restore ecosystems, enhance biodiversity, and combat climate change. Learn how these initiatives are shaping our natural world.

Island spring is around the corner — near, but not yet quite a fact. On Good Friday afternoon, I stepped outside to take down ...

Mirabestia maisie and Astyra mclaughlinae are named after family members and colleagues, while Elimedon breviclunis is named ...

Newfound fossils from China suggest that complex animals were around millions of years earlier than thought, among them ...

VANCOUVER — As spring blooms in British Columbia, the brilliant orange-and black pattern of a monarch butterfly's wing and the distinctive cream cap on a black male bobolink songbird are a rare sight.