A fossil misidentified for decades reveals insects before six legs became standard. For nearly 40 years, one of the strangest ...

Scientists reconstructed Jurassic insect calls and found ultrasound evolved tens of millions of years before bats appeared.

How the Chosha praecursor insect may have looked. (Tihelka et al., Nature, 2026) As strange cases of mistaken identity go, ...

How many legs do creepy crawlies have? Well, if you’re looking at arachnids the answer might be eight, for a millipede the ...

A many-legged oddball from long ago helps fill a major gap in the fossil record — and hints at how insects ended up with just ...

Playgrounds can host a variety of natural wonders, and of course, kids. Now some students are not just learning about insects and spiders at school—they are putting them on the map and even ...

Did you know that there are ten quintillion—or 10,000,000,000,000,000,000—individual insects on the planet? That means that for each and every one of us humans, there are 1.25 billion insects hopping, ...

If an experiment is repeated under similar conditions, the results should be the same. In reality, the situation is often different—scientists speak of a "reproducibility crisis," which affects ...

Ancient teeth and human DNA are revealing a surprising history of insect eating. Modern humans in northern Eurasia appear to ...