“If we look at kind of the different time periods throughout history, large insects lived in the Permian period. Those were ...

Three hundred million years ago, dragonfly-like creatures with wingspans stretching 70 centimeters patrolled the skies of a ...

Scientists rethink why giant insects once ruled the skies, finding oxygen may not explain their size or disappearance.

Scientists in Australia have discovered a new species of stick insect believed to be the heaviest in the country, weighing the same as a golf ball. The remote rainforest in Far North Queensland, ...

Researchers found a new Acrophylla alta species of stick bug in the high-altitude rainforests of northern Queensland, Australia. Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at ...

LONGVIEW, TX (KLTV) - A Longview man says his canned spinach was just a little too crunchy. After further inspection, he says he found a large insect in his Great Value brand of whole leaf spinach. In ...

Scientific consensus is that high oxygen levels allowed these humongous fliers to exist, but a new study throws that idea ...

A recently discovered species of giant stick insect has captured the attention of entomologists in Australia with its extraordinary size. Measuring around 40 centimeters (about 16 inches) in length ...

When conditions get too dry, Madagascar hissing cockroaches like to "cuddle." Under certain conditions, the large insects gather in groups, with many participants in physical contact with one another.

Insects make up to 90% of all animal species on the planet, and most of them can be found in the tropics, the regions around ...