Why Insects Are Different From Other Animals? Two prominent features distinguish insects from other arthropods, and from all other animals: they have bodies divided into three segments, head, thorax and abdomen and they have six jointed legs. Other common insect features include compound eyes, wings, antennae and multiple-stage life cycles. How are insects different from
What Did The First Land Arthropods Eat? None of the early terrestrial arthropods were true herbivores. Instead, like scorpions and centipedes, they were predators, or, like millipedes and symphylans, they were scavengers that ate accumulating organic materials in the microbial soils, and maybe some rhyniophyte spores. What do arthropods eat on land? Most soil-dwelling arthropods
What Are Some Extinct Insects? Scientific Name Common Name Rhantus orbignyi Water beetle [unnamed] (New Caledonia) Rhantus papuanus Water beetle [unnamed] (New Guinea) Rhyncogonus bryani Weevil [unnamed] Siettitia balsetensis Perrin cave beetle Are any insects going extinct? As of July 2017, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) lists 343 endangered insect species. 5.7%