Some insects like mantids and grasshoppers have evolved in amazing ways in nature to blend into their environments to allow them both to hide from predators and capture their prey. From leaf insects ...

Though the idea of roaming around boneless is foreign to us as humans, it is actually the state of the vast majority of life ...

Although every species on the planet somehow plays a role in maintaining the ecosystem, there are some species whose absence would collapse the entire health of our planet. These creatures may include ...

Scientists use cutting edge scanning technology to reconstruct 'fossil monster' that lived half a billion years ago. The creature's soft anatomy was well-preserved, allowing it to be imaged almost ...

Source: Steve Nicholls/with permission. Insects are amazing animals. They're all over the place and simply put, their well-being is crucial for the fate of our planet and all other animals, including ...

The vast majority of animals on Earth are invertebrates (animals without backbones) – such as insects, arachnids and crustaceans. These amazing animals are absolutely crucial to our ecosystems: they ...

A new study collected tens of thousands of insects from the rainforest canopy in the Brazilian Amazon and found that 60% of the specimens occur at a height of 8 meters (26 feet) and higher. Most of ...