Discover the top 10 smallest animals in the world, from tiny frogs to miniature mammals, insects, and reptiles, all playing ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. In the 19th century, the German zoologist Christian Bergmann pondered a simple ...

A remarkable 151-million-year-old fly fossil found in China is changing our view of insect evolution. This ancient insect, ...

PULLMAN, Wash. — 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 ...

Record-breaking critters are always crawling, hopping, swimming or otherwise locomoting across our radar. To indulge our curiosity about two creatures who showed up recently in the news, we did a ...

When a fig tree falls in the Panamanian rainforest, it calls an army of strangely shaped insects to war. Known as jousting weevils, these beetles have heads shaped like a knight’s lance, which males ...

Explore the fascinating world of miniature snakes, often overlooked yet crucial to ecosystems. From the critically endangered ...