ARTHROPODA
FT. MILLIPEDE, MANTIS, CRAB
FUN FACTS:
- Arthropods have segmented bodies, exoskeletons, and jointed appendages
- The exoskeleton of an arthropod is mainly composed of chitin
- There are over a millions species in this phylum, making up 80% of all living animal species
- Arthropods range in size from microscopic to a few meters long
- Zoologists and paleontologists have an extremely hard time trying to classify arthropods and trace their ancestry
- Arthropods have been on the Earth since the Cambrian period