Around half a billion years ago, in what is now the Yunnan Province of China, a tiny larva was trapped in mud. Hundreds of millions of years later, after the mud had long since become the black shales ...

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Arthropods first appear in the fossil record some 530 million years ago. These joint-legged animals are the most species-rich and diverse animal group on Earth. The familiar creatures are virtually ...

It was only a little more than a century ago that the first great strides were taken in recognizing the role of arthropods as 'vectors' capable of transmitting pathogens that cause disease in humans ...