The evolutionary innovations of insects and other arthropods are as numerous as they are wondrous, from terrifying fangs and stingers to exquisitely colored wings and ingenious feats of engineering.

Figure 1: Holotype of Apankura machu. Figure 3: Strict consensus of the nine shortest cladograms for euthycarcinoids and extant Euarthropoda favoured by successive weights and implied weights for ...

Every now and then, you probably see a multi-legged little creature around your home. Ants find their way to food that's left out, crickets occasionally appear in basements, and spiders spin cobwebs ...