The ancient ancestors of insects probably had relatively symmetrical body segments, each with a pair of legs. These segments have become modified over the millenniums in wildly different ways. In some ...

Editor’s Note: This is the first in a four-part series. The Greek translation of insect means cut into segments or segmented, which is a good description of an insect’s body. All insects have three ...

Insect "Frankensteins" have been discovered among fossils from a deposit in Brazil. The prehistoric creatures had the wings and middle-body segments of a dragonfly's, wing veins arranged like a mayfly ...

For decades, researchers have tried to understand how insect wings evolved. It seemed that none of the proposed explanations was complete. Now the question may finally have been answered. Using data ...

This Hawaiian caterpillar raids spiderwebs camouflaged in insect prey’s body parts, and it’s not above cannibalism in a pinch. Credit: Rubinoff lab/University of Hawaii, Manoa. We think of moths and ...

Centipedes and millipedes are frequently mistaken for one another due to their numerous legs and similar names, but they are quite different creatures. Centipedes have flat bodies with one pair of ...