A team of biologists in Montana and Germany has found that, regardless of type, those insects that express a protective stick- or leaf-like appearance all evolved the same basic body parts.

There are all kinds of animals and insects that have oddly large (or small) body parts compared to the rest of them. Most (if not all) of these adaptations are down to evolution, so perhaps it’s ...

Insect body parts have names a lot like ours — the head, thorax (chest), and abdomen. But insects are also very different from us in many ways, including: They have a hard outer skeleton, instead of ...