A previously undescribed critter that lived 324 million years ago appears to have been a transitional species that lived ...
An insect sting can range from a minor irritation to an excruciating and even dangerous experience, depending on the species ...
An analysis of sound-making structures on preserved wings reveals the mating calls of ancient Jurassic insects, re-creating ...
Insects quietly hold much of the natural world together, yet conservation efforts are overlooking the tropical regions where more than 80 percent of insect species live. Monash University researchers ...
A 324-million-year-old fossil suggests early insects lived between water and land as their bodies gradually changed over time ...
How the Chosha praecursor insect may have looked. (Tihelka et al., Nature, 2026) As strange cases of mistaken identity go, ...
An amateur naturalist's photograph on iNaturalist helped scientists identify a new hoverfly species. Researchers later found ...
For a fossil described as a crustacean, it seemed to have an awful lot of insectlike traits, such as a body split into three ...