Every year, companies like GoPro manage to pack more and more functionality into smaller and smaller action cameras…

Fossils rarely retain evidence of an organism’s original color, but these 99-million-year-old amber fossils found in…

A brood of periodic cicadas not seen since 2003 is expected to emerge this year in parts of the United States.…

As much as I hate bugs with their little creepy wings and huge eyes, we need them. Yet there have been dire warnings…

East Africa is currently plagued with locust swarms of biblical proportions, but these swarms aren’t the act of an…

A grim report from the United Nations warns that unusually large swarms of locusts will be descending upon East…

Mantises are elite ambush predators, snatching their victims with a lightning-fast strike of their front limbs. But…

Police in Washington Township, Pennsylvania near Erie are searching for whoever left pill bottles containing live…

Ancient insects similar to modern lice parasitized dinosaurs by feasting on their feathers, as evidenced by a pair…

We really need to give insects more credit. They pollinate the shit out of our flowers. They break down dead things.…

Mosquitoes didn’t become the most prolific animal killer of humanity by being lazy. A new study this week suggests…

Barely missing a fatal slap at a bothersome fly might be a headache for both of you, according to new research from…

The cockroaches that plague our homes are even more indestructible than we thought, according to a recent study by…

Upwards of 90 percent of insects found in British hospitals carry potentially harmful bacteria, according to new…

That’s a photo of a huntsman spider eating a pygmy possum. Yikes!

Excellent news here at Gizmodo, where I presume what’s left of our blogger-chewed Forbidden Sandwich is still…

It’s not often you get to witness one of the most brutal acts of the natural world up close: bed bug sex.

Imagine for a moment that you’re having a boring Tuesday evening at work watching the radar in Southern California…

While bed bugs have been tormenting humanity for millennia, it’s long been assumed their evolutionary journey as…

There are more species of beetle than just about anything else on Earth—approximately 400,000 species described,…