Shrimp look an awful lot like bugs. The exoskeletons, jointed legs and compound eyes of both groups of living things give ...

If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to [email protected]. How many types of insects are there in the world? – Sawyer, age 8, Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina ...

Millions of the noisy insects are set to appear in at least 13 states this spring, including New Jersey. Brood XIV is a periodical cicada, one that emerges every 13 to 17 years. This is different from ...

The realization that bugs were close relatives of crustaceans took almost a century of curiosity to uncover. Paleontologist Joanna Wolfe of Harvard University, one of the authors of the 2023 study ...