Scientists in Australia have discovered a new species of stick insect believed to be the heaviest in the country, weighing the same as a golf ball. The remote rainforest in Far North Queensland, ...

Three-hundred million years ago, the skies of the late Palaeozoic era were buzzing with giant insects. Meganeuropsis permiana, a predatory insect resembling a modern-day dragonfly, had a wingspan of ...

Learn more about a newly observed insect behavior in which smaller ants clean larger ants.

Three hundred million years ago, dragonfly-like creatures with wingspans stretching 70 centimeters patrolled the skies of a world nothing like our own. These griffinflies, as paleontologists call them ...

“If we look at kind of the different time periods throughout history, large insects lived in the Permian period. Those were ...

Insects make up to 90% of all animal species on the planet, and most of them can be found in the tropics, the regions around ...