Given grasshoppers' iconic status in the insect realm, ... we plan to reclassify major groups within the family so that the classification would reflect monophyletic groups," he says.

In the lush, fossil-rich Hindon Maar Complex of New Zealand’s South Island, scientists have uncovered a 14.6-million-year-old bee fossil, the first of its kind ever found in Zealandia—the ...

How stick insects handle indigestive food. Max Planck researchers discovered multifunctional cellulases, ... Xylanase-cellulases from different species were closely related, and the ...

“Some insect lineages have clearly thrived and evolved unique features within New Zealand, but many are conspicuously and enigmatically depauperate given the complexity and scale of the ...

Insect species are in decline, and some are endangered 04:40. They might be tiny, but insects rule the planet, making up over two-thirds of the world's 1.5 million known animal species and the ...