Researchers have identified three fossil insects, including a 40-million-year-old extinct ant, inside two pieces of amber that belonged to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. The amber, housed in Weimar, had ...

Hawaii's rarest insects have a way of vanishing quietly, island by island, until scientists assume they're gone for good. But ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. The Lord Howe stick insect (Dryococelus australis) was ...

Molokaʻi also produced confirmed Blackburn's sphinx moth caterpillars in Hālawa Valley and Kalaupapa, ending a gap that stretched back to the 1940s, when the species was thought to have vanished from ...

Half of the one million animal and plant species on Earth facing extinction are insects, and their disappearance could be catastrophic for humankind, scientists have said in a “warning to humanity”.

Tucked deep in Fernbank’s WildWoods trail, Levon Biss’ special touring macrophotography exhibit “Extinct and Endangered: Insects in Peril” features large prints of the United Kingdom photographer’s ...

British conservationists have travelled to a French military base to bring a long-lost singing insect back to the UK. The Species Recovery Trust (SRT) has collected New Forest Cicada eggs from the ...