As night falls and the city bustle dies down, another kind of life creeps up on its citizens: Cockroaches lurk beneath cabinets and bed bugs crawl out of mattresses. These unwelcome guests have spread ...

Despite differences in shape and size all insects are characterized by a body organization that includes three units: a head, thorax and abdomen (panels A-B). In contrast all spiders (and other ...

An 82-year-old man from Australia with a lifelong passion for fossils but no formal training in paleontology has helped scientists challenge a long-standing idea about how a tiny but widespread group ...

Understanding the evolution of insect mating behavior is essential for explaining how early insects adapted to life on land. A new study examines Petrobiellus akkesiensis, a rare jumping bristletail, ...

Fossil evidence reveals a time when insects reached sizes that seem almost impossible today. Scientists say higher oxygen levels and harsh environmental pressures allowed bugs to grow into dominant ...

The surprising escapes from near-death situations of beetles and other small animals illustrate how both prey and predators ...

Giant prehistoric insects may not have owed their extraordinary size to oxygen-rich air after all, after new research ...