Dubbed the “bone collector,” this caterpillar found on a Hawaiian island disguises itself while stalking spider webs for trapped insects to eat.

The surprising health benefits of eating insects - Some species are just as nutritious, if not more so, than chicken or beef ...

In Greek mythology, the sea monster Charybdis swallowed and regurgitated large volumes of water, creating whirlpools powerful enough to drag passing ships to their doom. Ninety-nine million years ...

Meet Mosura fentoni, a bizarre 506-million-year-old "sea-moth" with three eyes, claws, and an abdomen full of gills.

Even better, they’re much more sustainable. Insects need very little space, water, or food to grow, and they produce far fewer greenhouse gas emissions. For example, crickets need 12 times less feed ...

In a study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers have discovered a remarkable example of ...

Australia's native ants do an incredible amount of environmental and agricultural heavy lifting. Here are 10 of our mighty ...

These bumps and rashes appear when an allergic person comes into contact with the hairs, or bristles, on the abdomen of carpet beetle larvae, or to the insect's blood. How to get rid of them ...

Paleontologists have discovered that a three-eyed sea moth predator lived on Earth half a billion years ago with evidence ...

Newly described bone collector caterpillars build a silken case around their bodies and adorn it with dead insect body parts ...

This rate was less than 30% for bugs without resin. Crucially, they found that applying resin to non-hunting body parts (e.g., abdomen) also offered relative benefit, confirming that the ...