Steve Backshall explores the insects and their close relatives, the arachnids and crustaceans. The series explores the intricate and at times bizarre relationships these animals have with humans ...

Steve Backshall explores the insects and their close relatives, the arachnids and crustaceans. The series explores the intricate and at times bizarre relationships these animals have with humans ...

This group includes nematodes (microscopic worms), arthropods (insects, spiders, crustaceans), and scalidophora (small, scaly marine creatures). Ecdysozoans share a unique characteristic ...

Spiders, crabs, and other arthropods evolved from a group of animals that underwent a burst of diversity around 500 million ...

This includes insects, crustaceans, millipedes and centipedes, even arachnids. Being an invertebrate means they don’t have backbones like us. Instead, some have soft and slimy bodies ...

An extremely rare collection of 160-million-year-old sea spider fossils from Southern France are closely related to living species, unlike older fossils of their kind. These fossils are very ...