Centipedes are not insects either. But centipedes are more closely related to insects than worms are. And that is because ...

Andreas Kay / Flickr / Dylan Thomas / Facebook Look out Peter Parker, there may be a new Spider-Man coming your way. An Australian tourist named Dylan Thomas brought back a bite-sized souvenir from ...

An ancient gene is crucial for the development of the distinctive waist that divides the spider body plan in two, according to a new study. An ancient gene is crucial for the development of the ...

An international collaboration featuring the University of Vienna and the University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA) has led to the first-ever chromosome-level genome assembly of a sea spider (Pycnogonum ...

Ever wondered why dead spiders curl up? It's not a final pose but a fascinating consequence of their unique hydraulic system.

Spider embryo with a loss of the waist region upon knockdown of the gene waistless. Hoechst staining with fluorescent stereomicroscopy. An ancient gene is crucial for the development of the ...