For nearly 40 years, one of the strangest insects ever found was hiding in plain sight, mislabeled as a baby crustacean. The flattened fossil from West Texas looked like little more than a dark smudge ...

Recent work on the frog-like leafhoppers of the genus Batracomorphus has drawn fresh scientific interest to the role of small insects in rainforest ecosystems. These tiny hop-ready species, found ...

Entomologists are often fascinated by insects from an early age and misunderstood by those around them. They moved forward, ...

How the Chosha praecursor insect may have looked. (Tihelka et al., Nature, 2026) As strange cases of mistaken identity go, this story is a difficult one to beat. A fossil dating back some 324 million ...