Paleontologists have described a new genus and species of Jurassic cockroach, Alderblattina simmsi, based on an isolated wing found in Gloucestershire,...
Alienopterix santonicus was found preserved in a piece of ajkaite, a unique Late Cretaceous type of amber from western Hungary.
Life reconstruction of...
The Lord Howe Island wood-feeding cockroach (Panesthia lata), a species of large wingless cockroach that disappeared from its home island following the...
A team of scientists from RIKEN, Waseda Univerisity, the Fukui University of Technology and the Nanyang Technological University has created a cyborg cockroach...
Current approaches for insect gene editing require microinjection of materials into early embryos. This severely limits the application of gene editing...
Paleontologists have found trapped in a piece of Burmese amber a unique scene of a prehistoric ‘hell ant’ (subfamily Haidomyrmecinae) attacking a nymph...
An international team of paleontologists has found a piece of amber containing the beautifully preserved ammonite, several marine and land organisms that...
The emerald jewel wasp (Ampulex compressa) is renowned for its ability to zombify the American cockroach (Periplaneta americana) with a sting to the brain....
Americans share their houses with any of more than 500 different morphospecies of arthropods (insects and their relatives) – at least on a short-term...
A new study led by Dr Sophie Mowles of Anglia Ruskin University shows how energetic courtship displays of male Cuban burrowing cockroaches attract female...
An international team of paleontologists has reported the important discovery of a new fossil species in the cockroach genus Ectobius.
The Dusky cockroach...
The cockroach genus Pseudophoraspism has been reported from China for the first time.
Top left: male Pseudophoraspis clavellata. Top right: male Pseudophoraspis...
A team of researchers at University of California in Berkeley has found that cockroaches can disappear in the blink of an eye by flinging themselves at...
