Tenants at Indian Trace Apartments in Riviera Beach are organizing against their landlord over dangerous living conditions ...

"They also wiggle their butts and hit them with their butts. They're quite aggressive little creatures." ...

Marlene Zuk's new book asks people to not villainize or valorize the urban critters that live all around us. Reading time 6 minutes For many people, seeing a rat rooting around the trash in their ...

Three-hundred-million years ago, Earth was very different. The continents had coalesced into Pangea, which was dominated in its equatorial regions by vast coal-swamp forests. With high atmospheric ...

First look: In Singapore, the future of infrastructure inspection may scuttle rather than roll. At Nanyang Technological University, researchers are adapting cyborg cockroaches – hybrid insects ...

Wall Street figures are turning to colorful metaphors, including invoking the hated insect, to express caution about the $3 trillion risky-lending market. By Lora Kelley In recent months, Wall Street ...

Cockroaches have emerged as an unlikely hero in the fight against plastic pollution, as new research reveals the bugs’ gut microbes can rapidly degrade polystyrene. Plastic pollution is a global ...

A thin band of light from Cristian Lucanas's headlamp pierces the blackness of a Philippine rainforest as he digs through the underbrush before gently scooping up a cockroach with his bare hands. As ...

Plastic pollution remains one of the most persistent environmental crises, with polystyrene (PS) among the hardest polymers to break down due to its stable aromatic backbone. A new study demonstrates ...

Humans might show commitment with a ring, penguins offer prospective mates rocks and some beetles gift a ball of dung. Wood-feeding cockroaches show commitment with a nibble of cannibalism — and then ...

This week’s warm weather plus the stretch of rain last week has been the formula for bugs and other insects to come out. Yes, it’s almost that time of year with spring nearly in bloom. That also means ...

This Valentine’s Day, more than 2,000 hopeless romantics will gift their loved one an unforgettable memory—featuring one of the largest species of cockroach in the animal kingdom. How sweet! Since ...