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The arthropods can tailor their toxins depending on whether they are hunting prey or defending themselves from predators, according to a new study. By Andrew Chapman A giant centipede’s many wriggling ...

Long before dinosaurs dominated the landscape, a colossal millipede relative the length of a family car crawled through what is now northern England. Newly analyzed fossils, including a rare glimpse ...

Scorpions‘ ancestors first appeared around 450 million years ago. That’s as old as sharks, older than dinosaurs, and even older than trees. Scorpions evolved from these early arthropods, known as ...