Discover interesting facts about insects, the critters whose combined weight on the planet is 70 times that of all humans.

News; Weird News; Insects; Grotesque newly-discovered insect boasts FOUR penises, 200 poison glands and 414 legs The illacme tobini was discovered in caves of the Sierra Nevada desert in Spain ...

Although the insect's gear wheels are similar in shape to manufactured gears, the natural structures are asymmetrical. "In these animals, the really important time for the gears to engage and ...

The animals of our planet walk on two legs, or four legs, or six, or even 750 for that matter. So why don’t any animals have three? A crimson-crested woodpecker using its tail to brace itself ...

What you are seeing in this picture is a magnified image of the rear legs of a common planthopper insect. And those teeth you see, called trochanter bumps, are the only-known example of gears that ...

When the insect jumps, the cog teeth join so that the two legs lock together, ensuring that they thrust at exactly the same time (see video above and image at left).