Jun 14, 2012 by Natali Anderson

Dutch biologists have discovered that insects can use plants as green phones for communication with other bugs. Ragwort plants show to act as phones that...

Jun 8, 2012 by News Staff

Scientists at the University of California in Santa Cruz have found why insects got smaller despite rising oxygen levels about 150 million years ago. This...

Jun 7, 2012 by Natali Anderson

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...

Jun 5, 2012 by Natali Anderson

Researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology have found how this blood-sucking insect can survive the high-speed impact of falling raindrops. Free-flying...

May 15, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

A team of European scientists has found several specimens of thrips with pollen grains captured in amber, providing the oldest known evidence of insect...

May 8, 2012 by News Staff

A team of researchers from Auburn University has discovered a new trapdoor spider species from a well-developed housing subdivision in the heart of the...

May 2, 2012 by James Freeman

Chinese scientists have discovered fossils of remarkable giant flea-like animals that lived millions years ago in what is now China. An artist’s impression...

Mar 25, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

A team of researchers from the University of Nevada in Las Vegas has discovered an intriguing new scorpion in Death Valley National Park. The new scorpion...

Mar 24, 2012 by Natali Anderson

A team of researchers has discovered a new and unusual wasp species during an expedition to the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. An adult male Megalara garuda...

Feb 7, 2012 by News Staff

An international team of researchers has reconstructed a song played by a prehistoric bushcricket some 165 million years ago. A modern-day bushcricket...

Feb 7, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

A team of Japanese researchers has successfully demonstrated that loss of flight has been the major driving force for beetle diversification. Carrion beetles:...