Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The griffinfly, now extinct, once stretched its wings nearly 70 centimeters wide. (CREDIT: Werner Kraus / Wikimedia / CC BY-SA 4.0 ...

A previously unknown giant stick insect has been discovered in the high-altitude rainforests of Australia — and it may be the heaviest insect ever recorded in the country. The colossal critter, which ...

An insect found on the side of a Fayetteville, Arkansas, big-box store has been identified as the species Polystoechotes punctata, which belongs to a family of insects that predates the dinosaurs. An ...

Three-hundred million years ago, the skies of the late Palaeozoic era were buzzing with giant insects. Meganeuropsis permiana, a predatory insect resembling a modern-day dragonfly, had a wingspan of ...

NORTH QUEENSLAND, Australia (CNN) - A researcher in Australia has identified a new supersized stick insect. The species was discovered in high altitudes in North Queensland. The insect measures about ...

Have you ever seen a massive bug that looks like a twig or tree branch? Probably not, because these rare insects are masters of camouflage. Giant stick insects are some of the most expensive insects ...

In European parks and gardens, a previously unknown silhouette is now part of the landscape: giant praying mantises. Their ...

What initially draws my eyes to the tall, stalky plant growing near the Oconaluftee Visitor Center in Great Smoky Mountains National Park is the round, green bulge in a stem near its crown. Called ...

Three hundred million years ago, dragonfly-like creatures with wingspans stretching 70 centimeters patrolled the skies of a world nothing like our own. These griffinflies, as paleontologists call them ...