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 ...

Giant bird-eating centipedes may sound like something out of a science-fiction film — but they’re not. On tiny Phillip Island, part of the South Pacific’s Norfolk Island group, the Phillip Island ...

For the first time in four years, researchers said, the rarest snake in North America was spotted earlier this year in Florida, but it appears its eyes may have been too big for its stomach. According ...

Creepy, crawly, newly discovered. The latest critter to emerge from the Japanese archipelago is an 8-inch-long, 1-inch-wide centipede, the first to be identified in Japan in nearly 150 years. A paper ...

The rate of species extinction has lent urgency to the description of new species, but what is the point of new names without meaningful data? A new collaboration between, BGI-Shenzhen, GigaScience ...