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.

On the ground, the eight-foot millipede Arthropleura Armata crawled around; it’s believed to be the largest invertebrate ... birds made oversized insects a thing of the prehistoric past.

Insects were able to reach gargantuan sizes largely because the earth's atmosphere was rich in oxygen in prehistoric times ... compiled a list of 20 of the biggest insects in the world using ...

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 ...

Even the largest animals alive today, however, pale in comparison to some of the prehistoric giants that used to roam the earth. From gigantic insects with wingspans the size of birds, to towering ...

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 ...

Insects were able to reach gargantuan sizes largely because the earth’s atmosphere was rich in oxygen in prehistoric times ... Read on to find out just how big these impressive creatures ...

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 ...

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 and ...