The ancient ancestors of insects probably had relatively symmetrical body segments, each with a pair of legs. These segments have become modified over the millenniums in wildly different ways. In some ...

Editor’s Note: This is the first in a four-part series. The Greek translation of insect means cut into segments or segmented, which is a good description of an insect’s body. All insects have three ...

Centipedes and millipedes are frequently mistaken for one another due to their numerous legs and similar names, but they are quite different creatures. Centipedes have flat bodies with one pair of ...