Millions of years ago, oversized insects such as griffinflies boasting wingspans comparable to today's hawks scuttled across (and fluttered above) the planet. But why these jumbo jets of the insect ...

Global relationship between body size shifts and biogeographical range shifts between the tropical and temperate zone in extant Odonata. Credit: Journal of Biogeography (2022). DOI: 10.1111/jbi.14544 ...

I like big bugs. I cannot lie. But which insect is the biggest? I asked my friend Rich Zack. He’s an insect scientist at Washington State University. He told me the answer depends on how you define ...

Bugs are scary. But at least we can take solace in the fact that they’re small, right? Well, the goliath stick insect might ...

Have you ever seen a massive bug that looks like a twig or tree branch? Probably not, because these rare insects are masters ...

Giant insects that ruled prehistoric skies for millions of years may have met their end due to the evolution of predatory birds, researchers say. Gigantic insects once dominated the Earth. About 300 ...

Insects vary widely in how dangerous they can be, despite often being underestimated. This video ranks insect species based ...

Researchers were shocked to discover an enormous new species of stick insect in the Australian forest, highlighting just how much humans have yet to learn about the biologically rich habitat, Gizmodo ...

They are exceptional but fragile. Yet the orchid mantis is one of the most expensive exotic pet insects, and people happily ...

Look at the nail of your pinky finger. That’s about the width of the biggest known insect egg, which belongs to the earth-borer beetle Bolboleaus hiaticollis. The smallest egg, from the wasp ...