The evolutionary paths that created snatching forelimbs in insects multiple times moved in a similar direction but didn't end ...

Zoraptera, an order of insects that includes angel insects, has defied accurate taxonomic description since 1913.

Zoraptera, also known as angel insects or ground lice, are tiny termite-like insects generally found underneath bark or in ...

Insects have changed very little over the millions of years they’ve spent evolving. The more interesting story may be why so many of our responses to them have remained the same. Many of the pests we ...

But a new discovery suggests that these viscous secretions emerged in a very different world from the one our minds conjure ...

Psychology says people who are scared of cockroaches, bugs or house lizard aren't always reacting without reason. Psychology ...

Citizen scientists have helped researchers solve a long-standing mystery about how parental care evolved in harvestmen. Using ...

The act of puncture – stabbing something with a sharp tool – is incredibly widespread in the natural world. Examples of ...

A new study builds on a wave of new work that is daring to suggest insects might have a form of consciousness.

Flowers and insects share a remarkable partnership developed over millions of years. Insects help flowers reproduce by ...

Scientists painted black cows with white stripes to test fly deterrence. Striped cattle attracted about half as many biting ...

His superpower has always been speaking his mind – and his majestic new BBC show aims to shatter our ideas about life itself. The presenter talks mass extinction, spiders who dream and why people get ...