Western culture has long painted eating bugs as backward and gross. But they’re a common food for some 2 million people, and ...

Learn about the wide-ranging Ecdysozoa group of animals and how scientists solved the curious case of their nervous systems' ...

Did you know ants once shared the planet with dinosaurs like the T-Rex and the Velociraptor? Or that termites cultivate food ...

Pioneering research reveals the origins of the ventral nerve cord in early molting animals. An international team of ...

An international team of scientists has uncovered a fascinating piece of the evolutionary puzzle: how the ventral nerve cord, ...

In the past decade or so, food startups and sustainability advocates have been hoping that a similar glow-up might be possible for other edible arthropods: insects. Insect protein has been touted ...

A study analyzing Cambrian fossils uncovered that the ancestral ecdysozoan likely had a single ventral nerve cord, ...

Insects don’t disappear come winter and miraculously reappear come spring. Like most things in nature, evolution has provided ...