Researchers sequenced the genome of a sea spider, revealing it lacks whole-genome duplication seen in related arachnids. This ...

The first record of termites in a polar region provides key insights into what these ancient forests were like ...

And, as our recently published research in Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology reveals, termites also chewed through the decaying wood of fallen trees. This is the first record of ...

Mindy Weisberger's new book details the crafty worms, fungi, and other parasites that have learned to mind-control their hosts.

Except it contains many of the world's best-preserved, most diverse fossils. The defunct mine's location in Grundy County is one of several sites spanning six counties that belong to the Mazon ...

65 miles southwest of Chicago, a small hill that looks like a prop from an Indiana Jones contains many of the world’s best-preserved, most diverse fossils.

The best places to see them include Slaughter Beach, DuPont Nature Center, Kitts Hummock and Pickering Beach, but horseshoe crabs can be spotted up and down the Delaware beaches for most of the warm ...

Illinois’ commercial fossil trade is alive and well thanks to collectors who are motivated by money, science and the hunt — and who test the outer bounds of legality.

Arjan Mann, a paleontologist at the Field Museum of Natural History who specializes in Mazon Creek fossils, is studying what he thinks might be a new species of salamander ancestor. This fossil is ...

Extremely rare fossil of an ancient scorpion unearthed at China's Jehol Biota. The scorpion would've been a key species in ...

Over 500 million years ago, the ancestors of a diverse group of animals known as Ecdysozoans existed. This group includes various species of insects, arachnids, and nematode worms. For a long time ...