Discusses arthropods, a diverse group of animals characterized by jointed legs, exoskeletons, and segmented bodies. It highlights four main classifications of arthropods: myriapods (like millipedes), ...

Japanese encephalitis spreads via mosquitoes. It has been detected in Brisbane’s eastern suburbs and claimed two lives in NSW ...

Flood waters boost mosquito numbers. Disease outbreaks don’t always follow but it’s important to remove stagnant water from ...

The findings reveal that insects developed modern patterns of herbivory long before flowering plants flourished, upending a ...

These included brachiopods, which lived in shells resembling those of clams or cockles, and animals with jointed, external skeletons known as arthropods—the ancestors of insects, spiders ...

Some species grew to more than six feet (two meters) in length and are considered the largest arthropods ever to have lived. Bearing a resemblance to their scorpion descendents, eurypterids had a ...

Vectors include animals and microorganisms that transmit different diseases. The most common vectors are arthropods, which are invertebrate animals with an external skeleton called an exoskeleton.