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 ...

LONGVIEW, TX (KLTV) - A Longview man says his canned spinach was just a little too crunchy. After further inspection, he says he found a large insect in his Great Value brand of whole leaf spinach. In ...

A recently discovered species of giant stick insect has captured the attention of entomologists in Australia with its extraordinary size. Measuring around 40 centimeters (about 16 inches) in length ...

Scientists in Australia have discovered a new species of stick insect believed to be the heaviest in the country, weighing the same as a golf ball. The remote rainforest in Far North Queensland, ...

When conditions get too dry, Madagascar hissing cockroaches like to "cuddle." Under certain conditions, the large insects gather in groups, with many participants in physical contact with one another.

"Their body mass likely helps them survive the colder conditions, and that's why they've developed into this large insect over millions of years." Two specimens of the species have now been included ...

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 ...