Howard said whalleyala bolsoveri was discovered by a miner called Malcolm Spencer, while the arctotypus diluculum was found ...

Some 300 million years ago, giant insects soared over Earth’s wetlands, with wings stretching almost 70 centimetres wide. A ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The griffinfly, now extinct, once stretched its wings nearly 70 centimeters wide. (CREDIT: Werner Kraus / Wikimedia / CC BY-SA 4.0 ...

When dinosaurs thundered across the land, a giant, cicada-like bug called Palaeontinidae flew in the sky and fed on tree sap. But something disturbed its peaceful existence — and triggered the ...

Meet the Madagascar hissing cockroach, a giant wingless insect that produces snake-like sounds, fights using horns, lives in rainforests and gives birth to dozens of live young.

Before birds or bats took flight, the skies were filled with insects, and some of them were enormous. Around 300 million years ago, dragonfly-like creatures with wingspans reaching 27 inches (70 ...

Comparison of an extinct griffinfly alongside one of the largest living dragonflies, the giant petaltail. (griffinfly credit: Estelle Mayhew, adapted from image by Aldrich Hezekiah. giant petaltail ...

Have you ever wondered what insect detectives do? Here, we share the findings of some fascinating research on stick insects in Australia. Despite the fact that thousands of these creatures have been ...

Three hundred million years ago, dragonfly-like creatures with wingspans stretching 70 centimeters patrolled the skies of a world nothing like our own. These griffinflies, as paleontologists call them ...