A Clemson entomologist took a year off from teaching and came back with a discovery so enormous it rewrote what scientists ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. With over 1.5 million species of beetles crawling around the globe, it’s no surprise that about 2,500 of them call Arizona home — ...

A study in Costa Rica has big implications for extinction and conservation.

New calculations suggest that the insect species inhabiting our planet may be double or triple previous estimates.

A research team from the Natural History Museum of Denmark has published a compelling new study in insect taxonomy in the ...

Recent estimates have come to the consensus that our planet hosts roughly six million species. But new research reveals that ...

For 40 years, we thought Earth was home to six million insect species. Turns out, it could be three times that.

One hundred million years ago, as iguanodons and triceratops fled from hungry tyrannosaurs, another biological drama played out on the ground where the giant reptiles trod: Male beetles using their ...

Insects may be even more dominant on Earth than scientists thought. A new estimate suggests the planet could hold 14 million ...