Ah, cockroaches. The scummy, skittering, pesky little pests that somehow manage to vanish whenever you flick on the bathroom light. Like Mother Nature's little Batmans. Part of what makes them so hard ...

Rob DeSalle, Curator in the Division of Invertebrate Zoology at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, offers this explanation: The major difference between insect blood and the ...

The polypterids (bichirs and ropefish) are extant basal actinopterygian (ray-finned) fishes that breathe air and share similarities with extant lobe-finned sarcopterygians (lungfishes and tetrapods) ...

Cockroaches are infamous for their tenacity, and are often cited as the most likely survivors of a nuclear war. Some even claim that they can live without their heads. It turns out that these armchair ...

What might be mistaken for a waterslide in this image is actually the breathing tube, or trachea, of a dragonfly. This tube connects to openings in the insect's exoskeleton (outer “shell”) called ...

The emergence of life from water on to land is a pivotal moment in evolutionary history, and scientists say a new discovery may shed light on how it was able to happen. Palaeontologists have verified ...

A caterpillar-looking bug hangs out on a stem, minding its own business. Suddenly, forceps emerge, moving towards the ...

This article originally appeared on The Conversation. A century-old mystery about how ancient freshwater fishes breathe has finally been put to rest, thanks to a study published last week in Nature ...

Honestly, I’m not sure what to say except that YouTuber Precarious333’s video of a Giant Texas Katydid (Neobarrettia spinosa) chirping, breathing, and grooming is way more captivating than I expected ...

The 100-year-old mystery surrounding how four-legged animals developed the ability to breathe air has finally been solved. Scientists claim the ability was passed down by ancient Gogonasus - a group ...