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 ...

America is home to insects that reach sizes most people would never expect to encounter in their own backyard. From enormous beetles to giant flying species, the hunt reveals the strange adaptations ...

Big black beetles with long antennae might be skittering around your yard or patio this time of year, but fear not: These are just the relatively harmless palo verde beetles, also known as palo verde ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Have you seen a big black bug flying around your yard? Don't worry, you probably just met one of Arizona's most famous summer ...

Remote-controlled cockroaches are thing of the past, practically considered peasantry by the remote-controlled insect community, if such a thing were to exist. Well, not really, but why settle for ...

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 ...