An analysis of sound-making structures on preserved wings reveals the mating calls of ancient Jurassic insects, re-creating ...

A previously undescribed critter that lived 324 million years ago appears to have been a transitional species that lived ...

A 324-million-year-old fossil suggests early insects lived between water and land as their bodies gradually changed over time ...

Scientists spent over a decade reconstructing the calls of nine species of ancient insects to create the first accurate ...

How the Chosha praecursor insect may have looked. (Tihelka et al., Nature, 2026) As strange cases of mistaken identity go, ...

For a fossil described as a crustacean, it seemed to have an awful lot of insectlike traits, such as a body split into three ...

The sights and sounds of the Jurassic era are long gone, and we will never know for sure what that ancient world looked and sounded like. Fossils can offer clues, and reconstructions can give us a ...

A review in 2019 suggested 40% of insect species are thought to be threatened with extinction. Ants, bees and wasps ( ...

More than 60% of Australia's known insects are unnamed and a mystery to science. Of an estimated 500,000 Australian species, roughly half are insects, but many aren't categorized. A group of ...

Australia’s effort to bring digging mammals back to an 8,000-hectare wildlife sanctuary has produced changes below the ...

One day in the near future you could be lying incapacitated in the middle of an earthquake-ravaged landscape where wheeled vehicles can’t reach you. Or in the very distant future, after engineers have ...