Deep under the Jurassic rock beds of New South Wales, scientists discovered fossilized insects that push back the history of one of the world’s most hardy families of flies. These fragile traces, ...

Did you know that there are ten quintillion—or 10,000,000,000,000,000,000—individual insects on the planet? That means that for each and every one of us humans, there are 1.25 billion insects hopping, ...

entmain copy 39088019137645 purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. Contents 1. The evolution of ideas on insect metamorphosis -- 2. A spectacular diversity of forms and ...

Paleontologists, including researchers from the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin (MfN), have described the oldest insect larval feeding tunnels inside leaves, also known as leaf mines, along with ...

Researchers at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, together with data scientists, have developed a new method to largely ...

Scientists have discovered the remains of a 400 million-year-old insect, the oldest ever located, in a fossil unearthed in Scotland in the early 1900s. The U.S. scientists spotted the remains of the ...

Step outside on any day of the year, at any time of day, and something small, very small, with translucent wings or several legs or a thorax or compound eyes or antennae is probably, strike that, most ...

BugFest returns with hands-on insect fun at the Natural History Museum of Utah. BugFest returns to the Natural History Museum of Utah with live bug encounters, hands-on exhibits, and family-friendly ...

The mild winters and warm summers of recent years have facilitated the spread of such insect species as the European mantis (Mantis religiosa) in Latvia. Savenkovs believes that this year's harsh ...