The animal measured about 7 feet (2 meters) in length, and is one of the largest arthropods that ever lived

The smells are picked up by the palps, those long sensory appendages around the mouth.

The thorax is not the only tumour site affected by breathing.

He went into the hospital to undergo tests for a pain in his abdomen

Then the waiter grabbed a plate and smashed it through the body cavity of the pig

Your skin contains a network of small blood vessels, which are controlled by your nervous system

Dangling like a bat, she began to push through her old exoskeleton

The best-performing chitin gauze sped the growth of new skin cells and blood vessels

Here they feed and grow, molting periodically, until they become infective

They have these amazing microphones and antennae

The animal measured about 7 feet (2 meters) in length, and is one of the largest arthropods that ever lived

All grown-up insects have compound eyes, though not many have as large ones as the dragon fly

He was a cheerful, rotund little man with round simple eyes and a smile that went all over his face.

Air enters through a pair of spiracles located behind the last pair of legs, on the opisthosoma

Most amphibians undergo a complete metamorphosis, or change of form, the young being unlike the adults

The cockroach, like the grasshopper and the locust, only undergoes an incomplete metamorphosis

The pedipalp ends of immature males, and of females of any age, look like the ends of the walking legs

Respiratory organs in the form of tracheal tubes opening by a pair of stigmata in the 2nd and 3rd somites of the opisthosoma

The bugs have very little Massospora in them when they're in their nymph stage, one of the times when they're ideal for eating

The larvae hatched into flies, which they then bred using artificial light

Groups of the caterpillars begin to move down the trunk and look for a place to pupate in leaf litter or the ground

Pupa is named from its resemblance to a chrysalis, the apex being rounded

Spiders have poison glands in their cephalothorax that open through pores on the tips of the chelicerae

The book-lungs openings are found on the ventral surface of the first abdominal segment, as is also the epigynum.

The snake's venom paralyzed the mouse

The ant's mandibles gaped open and prepared to seize the beetle.

When the Prawn or Shrimp is not in a hurry, he swims slowly but surely with the little paddles, or "swimmerets."

There were reports that American prisoners of war of the Japanese in World War II resorted to maggot therapy to treat severe wounds.

The night was quiet, no insects chirping, no water gurgling

They have been classified as an order of arachnids unto themselves

He found a centipede in the garden and pressed it into her hand on the way to school

He was concerned in the discovery of the oldest known land snails, and found the oldest millipedes.

Of crustaceans, land-crabs are remarkable for size and number

Nymphs were reared under glasshouse conditions (as above) and observed daily until ecdysis

Certain spiders, particularly the venomous kinds, have chelicerae that contain or are connected to venom glands.

Overall, the olfactory and gustatory sensilla were clustered mainly on the three antennal club flagellomeres