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Ancient Earth once buzzed with enormous dragonfly-like insects, and scientists long thought high oxygen levels made their size possible. A new study overturns that idea, revealing insect flight ...

Ronda Bowser and Colette Falco, from the Institute for Canine Forensics, and their historical human remains detection (HHRD) ...

The Women in Insect Science Research Topic series aims to highlight and celebrate the scientific contributions of women in entomology—an area of research that remains crucial for global and local ...

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A mass of writhing maggots on a decomposing murder victim is not a sight for the squeamish, but for some, it is evidence. A maggot’s age and species can give essential information to forensic ...

Even Antarctica’s toughest native insect can’t escape the reach of plastic pollution. Scientists have discovered that Belgica antarctica — a tiny, rice-sized midge and the southernmost insect on Earth ...

A discovery by FIU researchers could help forensic investigators close the gap on estimating time of death. Often, death investigations rely on maggots — the larvae of blow flies that are among the ...

Researchers are finding new ways to use artificial intelligence in forensic investigations, from identifying insect species at crime scenes to organizing complex evidence in laboratories. These ...

Seven new species of a distinctive frog-like insect have been discovered by a scientist from Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) in Cambridge, England. Belonging to the genus Batracomorphus, the seven ...

One bug, a small black beetle with ridges along its back, caught the attention of entomologist Dr. Stephen Baca. He identified it immediately as Oiceoptima inaequale, the ridged carrion beetle, from ...