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

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 ...

The new analysis in Nature shows that the remipedes are the crustaceans most closely related to the insects. Remipedes and insects together are now shown to be a sister group to all the other ...

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 ...

They can include the antennae of insects and crustaceans, and the pincers and fangs of spiders and scorpions. But unlike other megacheirans, their flexible, whip-like hairs suggest the creature ...

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 ...