An insect has six legs and three body segments: a head, a thorax, and an abdomen. You may know that spiders, mites, and ticks have eight legs, and therefore are not insects. Sometimes we lump all ...

An alien-like sea creature that lived 500-million years ago was discovered in a Canadian national park. The fossils were ...

The good news is that silverfish don’t bite or sting, and they don’t carry disease, says Benson. However, they can cause ...

Tips and tricks from two pest experts on how to stop a silverfish infestation in your home, as well as ways to keep one from ...

Compare that to an insect, whose abdomen doesn't have appendages. But it has six legs on its thorax, while its head and mouth are basically set up like the mantis shrimp's. Then, there are spiders.

He noticed that if no insects visited the orchid to pollinate it, the flower started wilting. As it drooped, the finger-like appendage gradually moved towards the stigma, bringing pollen into ...

F or more than a century, researchers have argued over the evolutionary origin of insect wings. Although many hypotheses have been proposed, biologists typically support one of two competing ideas: ...

After examining multiple roughly 99-million-year-old specimens, researchers believe the extinct wasp species featured Venus flytrap-like abdomen appendages for capturing other insects.

Richard says: "When reconstructing fossil insect species, special attention needs to be paid to important diagnostic features, such as the wing venation patterns and the relative lengths of appendage ...

Insects might have inherited their distinctive multisegmented heads from an ancestor living more than half a billion years ago.. Newly described fossils of Kylinxia zhangi, an ancient animal that ...

A marine predator living over 500 million years ago might bridge the gap between insects and their ancient relatives. Fossils from China have revealed the head of Kylinxia zhangi in unprecedented ...