Researchers ventured into the Nullarbor cave system, Australia, and found a treasure house of fossils, hundreds in number and ...

It’s unclear how far back these spider-insect associations developed. Pedanoptera arachnophila demonstrates that by the mid-Cretaceous, at least one insect lineage had already evolved extreme ...

The Daddy Long Legs (or DLL) is structurally similar to the terrestrial arachnid it is named after. However, this Daddy Long Legs has a leg span of over 150 meters and a body the size of a house ...

Targeted weapon The fact that stung cockroaches could still flip themselves back on their feet shows that the jewel wasp’s venom doesn’t affect their general motor skills.

First, the wasp grasps the edge of a shield that covers the back of the roach’s neck (left) and delivers a sting that paralyzes the roach’s front legs.

Sex on Six Legs: Lessons on Life, Love and Language from the Insect World, describes a world of small — but surprisingly sophisticated — insect behavior.

For This Tarantula-Killing Wasp, Dinner's A Meal Best Served Living All the recent rain in Texas is great for insects — including the terrifying tarantula hawk. It's a big, nasty wasp that doesn ...

Most importantly, insects have legs and feet adapted to do whatever that insect usually does – like cling to stuff. Insect legs are a lot like human legs.

The small hopping insect Issus coleoptratus uses toothed gears on its joints to precisely synchronize the kicks of its hind legs as it jumps forward ...

KLG and Hoda chat about their weekends, which for Hoda included a Tomorrow's Children's Fund run and a visit to the beach with her mom and baby Haley Joy. Meanwhile, Kathie Lee got stung by a wasp ...

An insect that was long taken for dead has been found. The Lord Howe Island stick insect, considered extinct for years, still walks—or crawls—the Earth.

Huge 'Tree Lobster' Not Extinct After All After a ship wrecked on Lord Howe Island, a rat population invaded and eradicated a species of giant stick insect—or so researchers thought.