Tropical lizards love to snack on butterflies, but sometimes, they have trouble telling which end is which. That's because ...

With their tough exoskeleton, and no obvious sign of wings, beetles don’t look like they’re even capable of flight. Unlike the many insects whose wings are always exposed, beetles keep their flying ...

When engineers outfitted a six-legged robotic bug with wings in an effort to improve its mobility, they unexpectedly shed some light on the evolution of flight. The wings nearly doubled the ...

As if the largest bug to ever live – a monster nearly 9 feet long with as many as 64 legs – wasn’t terrifying enough, scientists could only just imagine what the extinct beast’s head ...

What's as big as an alligator, with the body of a millipede, the head of a centipede and the eyestalks of a crab? That would be Arthropleura, believed to be the largest bug to ever exist. But fear ...