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A special program implemented in New Zealand to save giant wetapunga insects, whose weight rivals that of a mouse, and return ...

Researchers have identified three fossil insects, including a 40-million-year-old extinct ant, inside two pieces of amber that belonged to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. The amber, housed in Weimar, had ...

The world's heaviest insect has made an astonishing comeback after conservationists saved the giant bug from the brink of extinction.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. The Lord Howe stick insect (Dryococelus australis) was ...

Fig.1: Reconstruction of the fossil moth lacewing Dryadithone cretacea, preserved in approximately 99-million-year-old Kachin amber. Its broad, leaf-shaped forewings closely resemble flowering plant ...

Tucked deep in Fernbank’s WildWoods trail, Levon Biss’ special touring macrophotography exhibit “Extinct and Endangered: Insects in Peril” features large prints of the United Kingdom photographer’s ...

Insects are the most diverse group of organisms in the world. They also play a vital role in the functioning of all of the earth's ecosystems. In fact, there are more than 900,000 different species of ...

MISSOURI, USA — Lights in the Midwest's summer nights have grown dimmer over the past decades. The glowing flicks of fireflies, or lightning bugs, trigger nostalgia and deeply held childhood memories ...

Australia's stick insects have been photographed millions of times, studied in museums, and kept as pets, yet scientists just ...

The Hawaiian islands are known as the most isolated group of inhabited islands on the planet. The insects and animals that reached Hawaii millions of years ago evolved completely away from the rest of ...