it’s a far cry from any spider. The lomankus edgecombei creature, belonging to an arthropod group called the megacheirans, has a single long, modified leg at the front of its body to capture prey.

Japanese spider crabs are the largest, spanning up to 12.5 feet from the tip of one front claw to the other. They’re also one of the world’s largest arthropods, animals with no backbone ...

You might think the bigger the animal, the more it should cost on both legal and illegal animal markets. These four creepy ...

A new 450-million-year-old fossil arthropod, preserved in 3D by iron pyrite (fool’s gold), has been unveiled by scientists. The new species, Lomankus edgecombei, is distantly related to spiders ...

Governments are still using guidelines ghost-written by the chemical industry despite their devastating effect on ecosystems.