A man was bitten on the face by a mosquito. What happened next left him "freaked out." ...

A previously undescribed critter that lived 324 million years ago appears to have been a transitional species that lived ...

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

More than 60% of Australia's known insects are unnamed and a mystery to science. Of an estimated 500,000 Australian species, roughly half are insects, but many aren't categorized. A group of ...

The sights and sounds of the Jurassic era are long gone, and we will never know for sure what that ancient world looked and sounded like. Fossils can offer clues, and reconstructions can give us a ...

Today, insects occupy nearly every terrestrial environment on Earth and account for more described species than any other ...

Insect decline is being driven by losses among the locally more common species, according to a new study. The meta-analysis of 923 locations around the world notes two significant trends: 1) the ...

Taking a big view of the so-called Insect Apocalypse finds some possible winners among the losers, plus a lot of things we don’t know yet. Overheated end-times terms have popped up during the last few ...

Answer help for Oh, I Don't Drink, featuring one of today's clues: Insect that rubs its hind legs against its forewings to ...