Bernard DUPONT / Flickr / CC BY-SA 2.0. The Amazon rainforest is home to many large beetles, but none of them compare in length to the titan beetle (Titanus giganteus).This massive beetle can grow ...

Millions of years ago, oversized insects like griffinflies boasting wingspans comparable to today's hawks scuttled across (and fluttered above) the planet.

One piece of evidence for this idea: Insect size decreased in the late Jurassic period when birds became more agile fliers, even though oxygen levels rose at the time, Clapham showed in a 2012 study.

To improve the next generation of insect-size flying machines, ... (By comparison, a standard video camera shoots 24, 30 or 60 frames per second.) ...

Insects are everywhere, from the deepest jungles to your backyard. They may even make some unwanted cameo appearances in your kitchen. Ideally, those bugs would be smaller and less intimidating than ...

Insect eggs range across eight orders of magnitude in size, and come in a stunning variety of shapes, a new database of almost 10,500 descriptions of eggs from about 6,700 insect species shows.

But why these jumbo jets of the insect world shrunk to modern size has remained a mystery, until now. IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser.

Ideally, those bugs would be smaller and less intimidating than the world's largest insect — a supersized creature you'll have to see to believe. Insects are everywhere, from the deepest jungles ...

For comparison, the biggest modern winged insect is a dragonfly from the tropics, ... A second slump in insect size happened about 60 million years ago, ...