A team of biologists in Montana and Germany has found that, regardless of type, those insects that express a protective stick- or leaf-like appearance all evolved the same basic body parts. In their ...

A team of researchers at the University of Zurich has discovered that plants benefit from a greater variety of interactions with pollinators and herbivores. Plants that are pollinated by insects and ...

It is a fantastical tale that transports us through space to California, and through time, some 1.23 million years back. Its heroes, twigs, are disguised as leaves. Yet, they move! The ...

What really moves Dickinson is the insects' flying proficiency. The first organisms to evolve flight, insects still represent the most sophisticated aerial machine on the planet, he says. Flies, in ...

In most developing tissues, signals called morphogens act like lighthouses, guiding nearby cells toward their fate and telling them what to become. Each cell relies on such signals for organized ...

Insects have to play catch-up by having to ‘evolve to be finer tuned’ to find their food, according to a new study. Sign up for the top news stories every day to keep you informed with what's going on ...

Bed bugs did not evolve to target humans by accident, but through a long process of adaptation tied closely to human behavior. As people moved into permanent shelters, these insects shifted hosts and ...