Cockroaches are so hardy, a popular joke goes, that they've occupied the Earth long before humans first appeared ---and will probably even outlast us long after we have annihilated each other by ...

Studying the sensory organs of a 100-million-year-old cockroach offers new insights into how the species may have lived. Researchers at Hokkaido University have revealed new insights into an extinct ...

The trilobites go marching one by one, hurrah, hurrah … well, at least they did, some 480 million years ago. New fossils from Morocco show lines of trilobites in orderly queues, likely buried by a ...

This ancient cockroach relative had huge peepers. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Today's cockroaches are nocturnal creepy ...

A genetic analysis of the German cockroach explained its rise in southern Asia millenniums ago, and how it eventually turned up in your kitchen. By Sofia Quaglia They come out of hiding at night and ...

An ancient cockroach-like creature nearly a foot long once skittered along the seafloor in what is now Canada, a new fossil find reveals. The fossil, a series of 500-million-year-old tracks, captured ...