Understanding the material basis of adaptive evolution has been a central goal in biology dating back to at least the time of ...

Scientists report adaptive divergence in cryptic color pattern is underlain by two distinct, complex chromosomal rearrangements, where millions of bases of DNA were flipped backwards and moved from ...

Its heroes, twigs, are disguised as leaves. Yet, they move! The English-speaking world calls them stick insects, while the French more commonly refer to them as phasmes. The star of our story is ...

It had previously been suspected that the liquid helps glue insects to vertical surfaces through capillary and viscous forces, much as a thin layer of water helps a wet beer glass stick to a tabletop.

The same is true for stick insects. This makes identifying chromosomal rearrangements with species challenging when assembling genomes. In the past, we've averaged data from each chromosome set ...

The zoo is among six institutions around the world that have been able to create living conditions for the largest species of flightless insect, the Lord Howe Island stick insect, which grows up ...

An expert keeper displays a critically endangered Lord Howe Island stick insect, nicknamed "tree lobster," at the zoo in Prague, Czech Republic, Tuesday, April 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek ...