Insect specimens that have puzzled museum curators for decades turn out to represent a lineage so odd that scientists have named a new order just for them, the first one created in 87 years. The order ...

Provides dichotomous key and illustrations that provide identification of common arthropods to the order/class level. by Donald J. Borror and Richard E. White. Houghton Mifflin, 1998. Details insect ...

Insects contain more than half of all living species, but the causes of their remarkable diversity remain poorly understood. Many authors have suggested that herbivory has accelerated diversification ...

AN international team of scientists yesterday announced that a new insect order (group) has been found to exist in the Brandberg area of western Namibia. The last new insect order was discovered 87 ...

Washington D.C., April 17, 2002 – An international team of scientists announced today the first discovery of a new insect order since 1915. The discovery will be posted on tomorrow’s Science Express ...

Researchers have discovered a 100-million-year-old insect preserved in amber with a triangular head, almost-alien and 'E.T.-like' appearance and features so unusual that it has been placed in its own ...