Quick Take Scientists used a powerful synchrotron X-ray system, robotics, and AI to scan 2,000 ant specimens in just one week ...

It sounds like a just-so story—“How the Insect Got its Wings”—but it’s really a mystery that has puzzled biologists for over a century. Intriguing and competing theories of insect wing evolution have ...

The image above is an extreme close-up of a common British insect called a planthopper. You’re looking at it from below, at the point where its two hind legs connect to its body. In the middle, you ...

In this activity, students will familiarize themselves with the distinguishing physical characteristics of an insect’s anatomy. Students will observe and maintain live crickets to learn the function ...