Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Louisiana is turning to an alien insect to help control the spread of giant salvinia that's clogging many of the state's premier ...

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 ...

Three hundred million years ago, before the age of the dinosaurs, our planet was abuzz with the sounds of giant insect life. The most iconic of these species were perhaps the predatory dragonfly-like ...

Ancient Earth once buzzed with enormous dragonfly-like insects, and scientists long thought high oxygen levels made their size possible. A new study overturns that idea, revealing insect flight ...

An infographic showing the average declines in abundance of key terrestrial insect groups due to invasive alien species. The extent of declines varies across species and regions. Insects are often ...

Three-hundred million years ago, the skies of the late Palaeozoic era were buzzing with giant insects. Meganeuropsis permiana, a predatory insect resembling a modern-day dragonfly, had a wingspan of ...

Captive breeding has helped New Zealand’s largest giant wētā establish new wild populations, with at least four generations ...

Louisiana is turning to an alien insect to help control the spread of giant salvinia that's clogging many of the state's premier lakes and bayous. The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries ...