A golden opportunity in the Caribbean has led to the discovery of an extinct “dirt ant” that has been confined within a piece of amber for 16 million years. Dirt ants (Basiceros) are true experts of ...

Crews with the United States Department of Agriculture will have to collect the geese between June and July when the geese are flightless and molting. The DNR says the new program will not take away ...

This new approach revealed more than just exoskeletons and spines. It uncovered preserved guts, eyes, antennae, and even animals caught mid-molt. “We need to study more than one specimen to see the ...

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This is one of the largest species of tarantula and we caught this one in the middle of it molting it's exoskeleton, it has no bones ... China slaps 84% retaliatory tariffs on U.S. goods in ...

For over a century, the Cambrian arthropod Helmetia expansa remained a mystery. Discovered by paleontologist Charles Doolittle Walcott in 1918, it was initially classified as a crustacean.