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

The extinct griffinfly had a wingspan of up to 70cm. Werner Kraus / Wikimedia , CC BY Insects first took to the skies about ...

He flips a rock and finds a creature that looks almost evil: thick-bodied, armored, and armed with huge pinchers. But this is not even the final form. This video breaks down the hellgrammite larva, ...

Three-hundred-million years ago, Earth was very different. The continents had coalesced into Pangea, which was dominated in its equatorial regions by vast coal-swamp forests. With high atmospheric ...

Trillions of insects embark, largely unnoticed, on epic journeys every year across mountain ranges, deserts and seas, and it is only now, as their numbers suffer huge declines, that scientists are tra ...