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 ...

Tyson, a major US producer of beef, pork and chicken, is betting on protein that comes from insects. The meat processor said on Tuesday that it has invested in Protix, a Netherlands-based insect ...

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.

Insects usually have three pairs of legs, one pair of antennae and three obvious body divisions. They are the only members of the arthropod phylum that possess wings as adults, although these are ...

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

In evolutionary biology, convergent evolution is the process whereby organisms not closely related (not monophyletic), independently evolve similar traits as a result of having to adapt to similar ...

Not all insects evolved from a common ancestor as has long been believed, a surprising new genetics study suggests. At least one group of primitive wingless hexapods – six-legged animals ...