Monash University scientists have developed a global framework to tackle a major blind spot in biodiversity conservation: ...

Insects quietly hold much of the natural world together, yet conservation efforts are overlooking the tropical regions where more than 80 percent of insect species live. Monash University researchers ...

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

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 ...

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

Insects and spiders are important elements in the food webs of aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. With declines in their biodiversity, the food supply for birds, fish, reptiles, amphibians and small ...

Entomologist Torsten Dikow, a leading expert on assassin flies, is working to connect a global community of researchers through the democratization of insect science Emma Saaty Torsten Dikow overlooks ...

Ancient teeth and human DNA are revealing a surprising history of insect eating. Modern humans in northern Eurasia appear to ...

The wiring of one insect’s brain no longer contains much uncharted territory. All of the nerve cells — and virtually every connection between them — in a larval fruit fly brain have now been mapped, ...

A fossil misidentified for decades reveals insects before six legs became standard. For nearly 40 years, one of the strangest ...