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These Stick Insects Haven’t Had Sex For Over 1 Million Years, The Longest Known Dry Spell Of Any InsectA bright green Timema stick insect blending in on some green leaves.

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These Stick Insects Haven’t Had Sex For Over 1 Million Years, The Longest Known Dry Spell Of Any InsectA bright green Timema stick insect blending in on some green leaves.
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These Stick Insects Haven’t Had Sex For Over 1 Million Years, The Longest Known Dry Spell Of Any Insect

clock-iconAugust 28, 2026
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How Many Legs Is Too Many? Because This 324-Million-Year-Old Insect Had 24Palaeoecological reconstruction of Chosha praecursor, showing it as a shrimp like creature on a rock above a pond.

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How Many Legs Is Too Many? Because This 324-Million-Year-Old Insect Had 24Palaeoecological reconstruction of Chosha praecursor, showing it as a shrimp like creature on a rock above a pond.
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How Many Legs Is Too Many? Because This 324-Million-Year-Old Insect Had 24

clock-iconAugust 27, 2026

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Step Back In Time 165 Million Years, Relax, And Listen To The Sounds Of An Ancient Jurassic ForestA forest landscape with the sun coming through the trees shining on a small fern.

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Step Back In Time 165 Million Years, Relax, And Listen To The Sounds Of An Ancient Jurassic ForestA forest landscape with the sun coming through the trees shining on a small fern.
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Step Back In Time 165 Million Years, Relax, And Listen To The Sounds Of An Ancient Jurassic Forest

clock-iconAugust 26, 2026

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Michigan, A Last Refuge For A Butterfly On The Brink, Announces It’s Saved A Species From Extinction. Welcome Back, Poweshiek Skipperlingsa close-up of the poweshiek skipperling butterfly, it has a very fuzzy body and short antennae

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Michigan, A Last Refuge For A Butterfly On The Brink, Announces It’s Saved A Species From Extinction. Welcome Back, Poweshiek Skipperlingsa close-up of the poweshiek skipperling butterfly, it has a very fuzzy body and short antennae
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Michigan, A Last Refuge For A Butterfly On The Brink, Announces It’s Saved A Species From Extinction. Welcome Back, Poweshiek Skipperlings

clock-iconAugust 20, 2026

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The FDA Just Cleared A New Species Of Flesh-Eating Maggot For Medical UseA surprisingly cute maggot emerges from a piece of fruit.

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The FDA Just Cleared A New Species Of Flesh-Eating Maggot For Medical UseA surprisingly cute maggot emerges from a piece of fruit.
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The FDA Just Cleared A New Species Of Flesh-Eating Maggot For Medical Use

clock-iconJuly 2, 2026
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Scientists Have Created Remote-Controlled "Cyborg Cockroaches" That Can Stay Underwater For Up To 3 HoursClose-up of the cyborg insect and the new diving suit, which has tubes that connect to the breathing holes of the insect and an oxygen generator mounted at the rear of the suit.

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Scientists Have Created Remote-Controlled "Cyborg Cockroaches" That Can Stay Underwater For Up To 3 HoursClose-up of the cyborg insect and the new diving suit, which has tubes that connect to the breathing holes of the insect and an oxygen generator mounted at the rear of the suit.
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Scientists Have Created Remote-Controlled "Cyborg Cockroaches" That Can Stay Underwater For Up To 3 Hours

clock-iconJuly 1, 2026
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Bugs All The Way Down: There Could Be As Many As 20 Million Species Of Insect In The WorldA picture of a lantern bug with a green body and a very long red snout sitting on a post.

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Bugs All The Way Down: There Could Be As Many As 20 Million Species Of Insect In The WorldA picture of a lantern bug with a green body and a very long red snout sitting on a post.
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Bugs All The Way Down: There Could Be As Many As 20 Million Species Of Insect In The World

clock-iconJune 30, 2026

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Neanderthals Ate Maggots And Mosquitoes, But Prehistoric European Humans Couldn’t Stomach BugsFried grasshoppers

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Neanderthals Ate Maggots And Mosquitoes, But Prehistoric European Humans Couldn’t Stomach BugsFried grasshoppers
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Neanderthals Ate Maggots And Mosquitoes, But Prehistoric European Humans Couldn’t Stomach Bugs

clock-iconJune 5, 2026
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One Cockroach’s Surprise Appearance During A 38-Year-Old Man’s Colonoscopya cockroach sits in a generated image of a colonoscopy to look like it's in the colon

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One Cockroach’s Surprise Appearance During A 38-Year-Old Man’s Colonoscopya cockroach sits in a generated image of a colonoscopy to look like it's in the colon
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One Cockroach’s Surprise Appearance During A 38-Year-Old Man’s Colonoscopy

clock-iconJune 4, 2026
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Amazingly Preserved 100-Million-Year-Old Bug Trapped In Amber Has Rare Crab-Like ClawsClose up of C. libererrantes preserved in amber showing the unusual claws.

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Amazingly Preserved 100-Million-Year-Old Bug Trapped In Amber Has Rare Crab-Like ClawsClose up of C. libererrantes preserved in amber showing the unusual claws.
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Amazingly Preserved 100-Million-Year-Old Bug Trapped In Amber Has Rare Crab-Like Claws

clock-iconMay 15, 2026

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Stunning Amber Fossil Of A 99-Million-Year-Old Firefly Is The Oldest Of Its Kind, Glowing As Far Back As The Dinosaursthe front and back of a luminous beetle locked in an amber fossil

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Stunning Amber Fossil Of A 99-Million-Year-Old Firefly Is The Oldest Of Its Kind, Glowing As Far Back As The Dinosaursthe front and back of a luminous beetle locked in an amber fossil
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Stunning Amber Fossil Of A 99-Million-Year-Old Firefly Is The Oldest Of Its Kind, Glowing As Far Back As The Dinosaurs

clock-iconMay 11, 2026
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“It Was Definitely An Unconventional Solution”: Mysterious Function Of Phallic Structures Deep In The Amazon Solved With The Help Of 40 Condomsa cicada tower stick out of the amazon's forest floor, another image shows a second tower with a condom wrapped over the top

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“It Was Definitely An Unconventional Solution”: Mysterious Function Of Phallic Structures Deep In The Amazon Solved With The Help Of 40 Condomsa cicada tower stick out of the amazon's forest floor, another image shows a second tower with a condom wrapped over the top
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“It Was Definitely An Unconventional Solution”: Mysterious Function Of Phallic Structures Deep In The Amazon Solved With The Help Of 40 Condoms

clock-iconMay 8, 2026

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This Wonderfully Well-Preserved Fossil From 34 Million Years Ago Shows The Earliest Emperor ButterflyFossil of the new species Apaturoides monikae, a rare butterfly fossil.

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This Wonderfully Well-Preserved Fossil From 34 Million Years Ago Shows The Earliest Emperor ButterflyFossil of the new species Apaturoides monikae, a rare butterfly fossil.
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This Wonderfully Well-Preserved Fossil From 34 Million Years Ago Shows The Earliest Emperor Butterfly

clock-iconApril 3, 2026

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300 Million Years Ago, Insects Were Enormous. That Stopped – And We’re Probably Wrong About WhyA scientist with a life-size model of Meganeuropsis permiana. They don't make them like that anymore, but the textbook reasons for that appears to be wrong.

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300 Million Years Ago, Insects Were Enormous. That Stopped – And We’re Probably Wrong About WhyA scientist with a life-size model of Meganeuropsis permiana. They don't make them like that anymore, but the textbook reasons for that appears to be wrong.
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300 Million Years Ago, Insects Were Enormous. That Stopped – And We’re Probably Wrong About Why

clock-iconMarch 25, 2026

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Bright Pink Katydid Turns Green In Just 11 Days After Discovery In Unusual Survival StrategyHow an unusual Arota festae looked when first found by scientists

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Bright Pink Katydid Turns Green In Just 11 Days After Discovery In Unusual Survival StrategyHow an unusual Arota festae looked when first found by scientists
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Bright Pink Katydid Turns Green In Just 11 Days After Discovery In Unusual Survival Strategy

clock-iconMarch 16, 2026