The spiny leaf insect mother not only abandons her eggs, she's also figured out how to trick someone else into protecting and ...

Known for exceptional mimicry, stick insects have evolved a range of egg-laying techniques to maximize egg survival while maintaining their disguise – including dropping eggs to the ground, skewering ...

Oct. 7 (UPI) --In the wake of the disappearance of the dinosaurs, birds and mammals flourished. Their proliferation was bad news for insects and other small prey. According to new research, it was the ...

The scientific order Phasmatodea, or stick and leaf insects, is known for a variety of camouflage that allows the animals to blend in with their surroundings. They diversified after the dinosaurs went ...

A surprising number of insects look like sticks and leaves. But nobody created them that way—they’re the product of the wonderful processes of natural selection. of natural selection. This leaf mantis ...

The oldest-known stick insect to mimic a plant has been unearthed in China. The newly discovered species — an extinct, distant relative of living stick insects — dates to the early Cretaceous Period, ...