In Shinonsen Town, Hyogo Prefecture, discoveries and news regarding insect fossils have been appearing frequently in recent ...
A tiny fossil discovered exactly a century ago has caused an enormous change in our understanding of when flying insects ...
New research from Durham University highlights how insects have been part of human diets for thousands of years despite ...
Ancient Earth once buzzed with enormous dragonfly-like insects, and scientists long thought high oxygen levels made their size possible. A new study overturns that idea, revealing insect flight ...
There are an estimated 10 quintillion insects alive on Earth at any given time. That's 10,000,000,000,000,000,000 individual insects. But how many species are there, why do we need them, and what ...
Australia's stick insects have been photographed millions of times, studied in museums, and kept as pets, yet scientists just realized something fundamental about them has been wrong all along.
Every survey method has an opinion about what counts as an insect. A trap does not sample the air. It samples whatever that particular trap is good at catching, and nothing else is ever in the data.
Scientists conducting a five-year research project in southern Minnesota have observed a tripling of insect numbers near two solar facilities built on rehabilitated agricultural land. They say the ...