Most people first notice pill bugs while lifting a flowerpot or turning over a log, then watching small gray roly polies curl ...

It sounds like a just-so story—“How the Insect Got its Wings”—but it’s really a mystery that has puzzled biologists for over a century. Intriguing and competing theories of insect wing evolution have ...

When we think about creatures skimming across water, images of birds landing or frogs leaping come to mind. But some of ...

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 ...

Water striders are water-walking insects that can jump upwards from the water surface. Quick jumps allow striders to avoid sudden dangers such as predators’ attacks, and therefore their jumping is ...

Adaptability explains why insects spread so widely and why they are the most abundant animal group on earth. Insects exhibit resilient and flexible locomotion, even with drastic changes in their body ...

For more than a hundred million years, these three male damselflies have been waiting for their damsels. Recently found preserved in Cretaceous-era amber, they now offer rare insight into the way ...

Centipedes are not insects either. But centipedes are more closely related to insects than worms are. And that is because ...

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 ...

Most of the volume of epithelial cell bodies containing nuclei are aligned as a monolayer on the apical (upper) side. They extend pillarlike cell processes in a basal (downward) direction. At the ...