Tag: insect

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 ...

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 ...

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