An ancient wasp may have zipped among the dinosaurs, with a body like a Venus flytrap to seize and snatch its prey, ...

A parasitic wasp that flew among dinosaurs had a Venus flytrap-like contraption on its abdomen that likely allowed it to ...

Paleontologists have discovered a disturbing new species of ancient wasp that restrained its prey using its Venus ...

The estimate of 5.5 million species of insects is interesting. What’s even more remarkable is that because scientists have found only about 1 million species, that means more than 4.5 million species ...

A handful of new studies moves the needle toward a consensus on the long-disputed question of whether insect wings evolved from legs or from the body wall, but the devil is in the details. Jef Akst ...

Nitisinone, a drug for rare diseases, kills mosquitoes when present in human blood and may become a new tool to fight malaria ...

Elliott Maurice Graham was arrested in February 2024 after investigators found bodies apparently abandoned inside his ...

Entomologists and taxonomists can use those images to see if an insect belongs to a new species, based on the insect’s body features. Evolutionary biologists can use those images to see how insects’ ...