Insects make up to 90% of all animal species on the planet, and most of them can be found in the tropics, the regions around ...

Three hundred million years ago, dragonfly-like creatures with wingspans stretching 70 centimeters patrolled the skies of a ...

Scientists in Australia have discovered a new species of stick insect believed to be the heaviest in the country, weighing the same as a golf ball. The remote rainforest in Far North Queensland, ...

This Aussie bug is breaking records — and possibly a few branches. Scientists have discovered a hefty new species of stick insect in a remote Australian rainforest, and it could be the heaviest ever ...

LONGVIEW, TX (KLTV) - A Longview man says his canned spinach was just a little too crunchy. After further inspection, he says he found a large insect in his Great Value brand of whole leaf spinach. In ...

Scientists rethink why giant insects once ruled the skies, finding oxygen may not explain their size or disappearance.

A recently discovered species of giant stick insect has captured the attention of entomologists in Australia with its extraordinary size. Measuring around 40 centimeters (about 16 inches) in length ...

Scientific consensus is that high oxygen levels allowed these humongous fliers to exist, but a new study throws that idea ...