So when our friend Doug Rhodehamel wondered, “What’s the largest insect that ever lived?” Weird Animal Question of the Week went hunting for giants, past and present. We found some ancient ...

Two fossils of singing cicadas, one of which was remarkably well preserved, reveals that the insects dispersed in Europe millions of years earlier than once thought.

The image suggests that ancient insects were eating parts of a tree fern. Smithsonian Institution The biggest challenge with this research is trying to figure out what insect species produced each ...

Arthropleura was the largest-known land arthropod, a group spanning the likes of insects, spiders, millipedes, centipedes, lobsters and crabs. Its head anatomy provided evidence that millipedes ...

Despite being part of an ancient lineage, this species already displayed ... The specimen came to light during a systematic examination of one of the world's largest collections of fossil insects from ...

Meganeura monyi was the largest early dragonfly known to exist. This species was a predator that would have eaten other insects, with spines on its ... as well as other prehistoric animals, including ...

Brood XIV, one of the biggest broods, emerges across a dozen ... scientists were able to assign the ancient insect to a modern tribe of cicadas called Platypleurini, “which is today primarily ...