A headless cockroach isn’t fictional biology. Here’s how its decentralized systems keep it alive for days after being ...

More than half of all known animal species on Earth are insects — critters with a hard external skeleton, three pairs of jointed legs, antennae and a body divided into three segments (the head, thorax ...

And it is all done in the name of science and justice, to help determine the time of death in a police-ordered post-mortem.

Most people first notice pill bugs while lifting a flowerpot or turning over a log, then watching small gray roly polies curl into tight balls. Because they share space with ants and beetles, many ...