A new fossil find reveals that in an ancient arthropod species, no animal was an island. The discovery of 525-million-year-old fossils belonging to a new species of arthropod shows that these animals ...

Although the defecation site is typically near the entrance at the edge of the nest, the mites were prompted to defecate at the centre of the nest using an ether extract of the host plant leaves. The ...

Researchers formally describe Helmetia expansa, offering new insights into its anatomy, behavior and evolutionary relationships. For over a century, the Cambrian arthropod Helmetia expansa remained a ...

Here we describe a construction of wind tunnel suitable for close-up observation of micro-arthropods behavior under various conditions. The tunnel was made of glass with inner dimensions 6x6x110 ...