We talk about the age of dinosaurs or the age of mammals, but since the first animal climbed onto land, every age has been, by any reasonable measure, the age of insects too. The Earth is salted ...

Over 300 million years ago, before the age of giant dinosaurs, Earth was covered with giant insects. Imagine a world where ...

Insects may well become the “superfoods” of the future, as coveted as quinoa and berries. They may be grudginly eaten, rather ...

After all, we humans have a complicated relationship with our six-legged fellow Earth dwellers ... the Victorian age that saw naughty children turned into insects? Up close, even the face of ...

Use your garden to help your children increase their understanding of wildlife. By catching and drawing insects they can look closely at the basic structure of these creatures and build their ...

It stands metres high, takes a decade to flower, smells like death and draws huge crowds when it blooms. But scientists are ...

A scene of conflict that was lost to the ages has been unearthed, assembling an indigenous perspective on events at the very ...

Insect lives aren’t so dissimilar to our own – they love ... The author of this amusing portrait is Elżbieta Gaudasińska, an illustrator of children’s books. Her precise linework, unconventional ...

"In recent years, estimates of how many species of insects there might be on Earth have varied from 100 million or more to as low as 2 million," Professor Stork said. "A consensus figure of 5 ...

It can also be a saving grace for those who are afraid of giant insects. In a new study, scientists found that as temperatures have risen over the past half century, global beetle populations may have ...