From the Cambrian to the present, the evolution of the world fauna of aquatic free-living arthropods has followed patterns of logistic growth in specialization and diversity among its constituent ...

A remarkably preserved horseshoe crab fossil from North America offers rare insight into some of the earliest known cases of animal disease in a Late Carboniferous swamp – more than 300 million years ...

The oldest leech ever discovered has turned out to be a shape shifter of expectations, preserving a body plan that looks nothing like the streamlined bloodsuckers that haunt horror movies and hospital ...

Although nature does not necessarily provide the optimal form, it still outperforms many artificial systems and offers valuable insights for designing functional machines based on elegant principles,” ...

The research highlights shrimp shells as eco-friendly actuators in robotics, merging biological materials with synthetic components for enhanced functionality.

Ciasico, M.N.A. and Ciasico, F.E.A. (2025) Macrobenthic Invertebrates in the Seagrass Bed of Matarinao Bay, Southeast Samar, ...

A remarkable fossilized larva has been discovered by scientists with its brain and guts still intact. The fossilized creature is one of the earliest ancestors of a group known as arthropods, which ...

Freshwater ecology is the study of all aspects of the ecology of terrestrial aquatic systems, including rivers, lakes and ponds. It includes the community ecology of these ecosystems, as well as ...

Poinsettias are a familiar sight this time of year — something of an icon of the holiday season in the Americas.

There is a scene in a famous movie in which a city boy, far away from his urban habitat, passes a mound of soil while on a ...

Patients with chronic coronary syndrome and at high atherothrombotic risk who received aspirin in addition to their current oral anticoagulation therapy had a higher risk of cardiovascular death, ...