Tag: insect

Decades before microplastics made headlines, a caddisfly larva was already incorporating synthetic debris into its home.

This ancient insect is the missing link between two living gnat species.

Now a single approach could be used to edit genes in 1.5 million insect species.

Things are about to get crowded.

"We have no intention of raising dinosaurs," the researchers assure us.

The fossil is around 75 million years older than the oldest millipede we've found before.

The heavier the load, the higher their energy efficiency.

The soft robots are propelled by hair-thin artificial muscles.

This is the earliest known physical evidence of insect pollination.

This not just happening only in Germany, but all over the world.

"In the future, we might also adapt dietary regimens for insect rearing in order to increase their antioxidant content for ...

Would you eat lab-grown insect meat?

These cave insects have reversed sexual organs. Now, scientists have learned more about this fascinating quirk of nature.

Intelligent behavior emerging from a group of relatively unintelligent organisms.

Marsbees could cover a lot more ground on the Red Planet than sluggish rovers.

Delicious and nutritious. Would you like a loaf?

We're responsible and it's up to us to clean up the mess.

I spy, with my little thousand eyes...

A heartwarming story of two brilliant and passionate researchers.

OK, just put some extra garlic on it.

Always go for a meal before you fossilize.

After leaving its exoskeleton behind, the insect narrowly avoided amber entombment.

Why build some tech from scratch when nature did all the dirty work for you over millions of years of ...

Insects are among the best disguise artists in the world, and new findings suggest they always have been.

Harvard roboticists made an insect-like flying robot that perches on ceilings to save energy, like bats, birds or butterflies.

Discovered in ancient lake deposits in northeastern China and eastern Kazakhstan, this ancient insect looks and exhibits behavior closely mimicking ...

Our houses are teeming with tiny insects, but have no fear - not only are they harmless, they might help ...

Three different ways to breathe: Mammals, birds and insects breathe in different ways, as exemplified above. Humans, as mammals, inhale ...

Keeping insects at bay is more than eliminating a simple nuisance - in many some parts of the world, it's ...

For cockroaches, it seems, collaboration comes naturally: when 50 cockroaches are presented with 3 shelters which can only host 40 ...

lustration of Duvalius abyssimus. / Sinc - José Antonio Peñas A new species of ground beetle perfectly adapted to extreme environments ...

A female insect has developed a spiky penis which it uses to get in charge . It's a role reversal, basically: ...

(c) PLOS ONE Fossils that capture a kinetic moment are truly fascinating because they surprise a scene or picture from ...

During man's exploits through out history, a great number of species were driven to extinction, either by excessive hunting, habitat ...