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

For a fossil described as a crustacean, it seemed to have an awful lot of insectlike traits, such as a body split into three ...

With artificial intelligence and careful modeling of fossilized wings, researchers reproduced how some extinct, katydid-like ...

For nearly 40 years, one of the strangest insects ever found was hiding in plain sight, mislabeled as a baby crustacean. The ...

We know very little about insect evolution despite them inhabiting every kind of environment on our planet. At a time when the future of many insect species is threatened, researchers are looking to ...

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 ...

Insects are one of the most species-rich groups on Earth. A new study on ...

How the Chosha praecursor insect may have looked. (Tihelka et al., Nature, 2026) As strange cases of mistaken identity go, ...

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, ...

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

Insect life-cycle polymorphism : introduction / S. Masaki and W. Wipking -- Diversity and integration of life-cycle controls in insects / H.V. Danks -- Seasonal plasticity and life-cycle adaptations ...

Different insects flap their wings in different manners. Understanding the variations between these modes of flight may help scientists design better and more efficient flying robots in the future.