If you have ever found a creepy-crawly creature in your home and thought to yourself, ‘Ew, it’s a centipede!’ you’re not alone. Centipedes are one of the most common household pests and one of the ...

Crawling insects often trigger unease, but many are harmless. Camel crickets, house centipedes, and lacewings are beneficial.

A fossil of a giant millipede found on a beach in northern England has revealed the “biggest bug that ever lived,” paleontologists say. The fossil was discovered in January 2018 in a chunk of ...

Avoid handling them, as this and other species can produce defensive cyanide-containing secretions if they feel threatened from predators.

Researchers claim to have identified the world's oldest bug. The specimen is a millipede found on an island in Scotland, and it dates back 425 million years. The team says that the finding implies ...

Scientists reveal discovery of giant millipede "as big as a car" 01:06 Before dinosaurs, it was giant bugs that roamed the Earth, or at least northern England, scientists say.

One notable example was Arthropleura, the biggest bug ever known at up to 10-1/2 feet (3.2 meters) long, ... Having two pairs of legs by segments, like millipedes, ...

Most millipedes have far fewer than 750 legs, and the leg-count record hasn’t been broken since the 1920s, says Paul Marek, an entomologist at Virginia Tech. But hope is hard to kill.

Paleontologists are calling a fossil of a giant millipede found on a beach in northern England "the biggest bug that ever lived." ...