Some of the strongest creatures on Earth are also the smallest! Meet the tiny U.S. insect that can lift over 1,000 times its own weight. Scientists are amazed by its super-strength, which allows ...

According to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the smallest insect in the world is the Dicopomorpha echmepterygis or fairyfly. The fairyfly is a type of wasp and is only 0.005 inches long.

A tiny, insect-eating bird that breeds in Alberta is delaying its annual migration south, a change likely triggered by ...

A bacterium living in special cells inside an insect has the smallest genome of any known cellular lifeform, a new study finds. With only about 160,000 base pairs of DNA, the genome of Carsonella ...

Two insect-like robots, a mini-bug and a water strider, developed at Washington State University, are the smallest, lightest and fastest fully functional micro-robots ever known to be created ...