A little leg may reveal something big about how closely related insect species can drastically differ in body shape, according to a new study. The team imaged live cells of fruit flies in the last ...

There are about 40 kinds of cats out there – like me. There’s only one kind of human on Earth now. But there are more than a million kinds of insects. That’s just the insect species we know about.

In some insects, legs have been lost in the abdomen; in others they have moved to the head, becoming antennas. Tomoyasu and Linz worked with Tribolium, or flour beetles, a common subject because of ...

The fossils were found in northeastern China. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Insects that lived 160 million years ago wore ...

video: Researchers at EPFL and UNIL have discovered a faster and more efficient gait, never observed in nature, for six-legged robots walking on flat ground. Bio-inspired gaits -- less efficient for ...

A handful of new studies moves the needle toward a consensus on the long-disputed question of whether insect wings evolved from legs or from the body wall, but the devil is in the details. For more ...