A little leg may reveal something big about how closely related insect species can drastically differ in body shape, according to a new study. The team imaged live cells of fruit flies in the last ...

There are about 40 kinds of cats out there – like me. There’s only one kind of human on Earth now. But there are more than a million kinds of insects. That’s just the insect species we know about.

In some insects, legs have been lost in the abdomen; in others they have moved to the head, becoming antennas. Tomoyasu and Linz worked with Tribolium, or flour beetles, a common subject because of ...

video: Researchers at EPFL and UNIL have discovered a faster and more efficient gait, never observed in nature, for six-legged robots walking on flat ground. Bio-inspired gaits -- less efficient for ...

In everyday language, many small creatures get labelled as “creepy-crawlies,” but scientifically, not all of them are insects ...

The Defense Advanced Research Institute now has a solution for landing in choppy seas and uneven terrain: adaptive robotic landing gear, shaped like giant steel grasshopper legs. The system employs ...

Do you remember growing up and seeing Daddy Long Legs for the first time? That teeny tiny oval body with those super, long string-like long legs protruding from that little body. Definitely creepy ...