A 324-million-year-old fossil from Texas offers new insights into early insect evolution. This ancient creature possessed an ...

Insects roam all over Earth, with an estimated 1.4 billion individuals for every human on our planet. Yet despite their ...

A fossil misidentified for decades reveals insects before six legs became standard. For nearly 40 years, one of the strangest ...

Researchers analyze the movement of the six-legged stick insect. Each of the stick insect's six legs is moved mainly by three joints. These joints are connected to the insect's body in an L-shaped ...

In 250 million years of insect evolution, the appearance of new wings is unprecedented. Transformations and losses of wings, yes, but additions, never. A research team in France has shattered this ...

The C. praecursor specimens were found inside calcareous claystone concretions in the Tesnus Formation of the Marathon Uplift ...

Today, insects occupy nearly every terrestrial environment on Earth and account for more described species than any other ...

A many-legged oddball from long ago helps fill a major gap in the fossil record — and hints at how insects ended up with just ...

How did insect wings originate? This is a question that represents an unsolved mystery of insect evolution. Despite many years of research, it is still not entirely clear from which body structure ...

An amphibious phase appears to have been an important step in this transition, providing insects with a bridge between ...

The extravagant headgear of small bugs called treehoppers are in fact wing-like appendages that grew back 200 million years after evolution had supposedly cast them aside, according to a study ...

When I was little, I loved chasing butterflies. It’s fun to run after them as they flit and flutter. But I didn’t eat them. I asked my friend Rich Zack if that was an oversight. He’s an insect ...