Researchers have found that stick insects keep evolving the same 20 body plans, from the "tree lobster'" to the "bark hugger" ...

From grasshoppers to cows, giant pandas and humans, nutrient dilution will have an impact. Read more at straitstimes.com.

This large variation in species richness among beetle lineages means that “no one explanation holds very well for any one group,” says McKenna. Still, among plant-eating beetles—which make ...

Most members of the insect order Hemiptera, known as true beetles, are not very large, compared to stick insects or giant vetas. However, one family in this order, the Belostomatidae, or giant water ...

The eyes are large and black. The antennae are clubbed ... The two-spot carpet beetle (also called the fur beetle) is one of the commonest species of carpet beetles in Britain. Its larvae are often ...

Convergent evolution is when similar features that have a similar form or function evolve in species from different periods ...

Thanks to decades of conservation to restore private grasslands, numbers of the threatened insect are on the rise in the Loess Canyons.

Scientists discovered a new species of prehistoric snapping turtle after re-examining an unidentified fossil on display in a ...

"Mealworm beetles are storage pests that attack stored grain, but we noticed their presence at a chicken coop where plastic ...

A 13-million-year-old species of turtle has been discovered after its fossil sat in a display case at an NT museum for ...

The Australian herald of the holiday season, the Christmas beetle, has returned. Look out for these species calling the south ...