Vocablulary Insect: A small, usually winged invertebrate with three pairs of legs and three distinct body parts (head-front, thorax-middle and abdomen-back). Arachnids: a class of animals that ...

Click beetles rely on a muscle in their thorax to leap many times their body length. Researchers just designed its robotic equivalent.

The cicada has the longest life cycle of any insect. Once they're mature, the brood will emerge, where they'll spend two to four weeks in late May and early June courting, mating, flying, driving ...

The result was a comprehensive image of the inside of the thorax. They then compared findings from these two species to a range of other ants and wingless insects.