When Google released a complete 3D map of an adult male fruit fly’s central nervous system, scientists celebrated it for its ...

The United States is home to an astonishing collection of oversized insects, including heavyweight beetles, powerful water ...

It wasn't just the roars of the dinosaurs that made up the soundscape of the animal world during the Jurassic period.

A Hidden Camera captures a hairy robber fly holding another insect firmly in its legs during a close predatory encounter. The ...

Developers are forcing a simulated fruit fly brain to navigate Minecraft and play Beat Saber, prompting one creator to build it an open-world paradise.

Google Research and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute have released "MaleCNS v1.0," a complete wiring diagram of the central nervous system of ...

Fireflies flash, crickets chirp, and sea lions bark. Three examples with signals so radically different that they seem to ...

An analysis of sound-making structures on preserved wings reveals the mating calls of ancient Jurassic insects, re-creating ...

Researchers have recreated the eerie calls that echoed through the Jurassic grasslands, steppes and woodlands 165 million ...

Scientists used AI, lasers and fossilised wings to reconstruct sounds made by cricket and katydid relatives 165 million years ago. (Image: Jun-Jie Gu) Scientists reconstructed 165-million-year-old ...

Four aquatic insects form the core of a trout's diet: mayflies, stoneflies, caddisflies, and midges. To match the hatch effectively, learn each insect's life stages and behavior—not just its ...

An estimated six million species of insect—maybe even more—call Earth home. Yet for some reason, none of them are found in the ocean. Scientists have come up with a few possible explanations, and a ...