Researchers have discovered that this synchrony is made possible by toothed gears that connect the two legs when the insects jump. Zoologists Malcolm Burrows and Gregory Sutton at the University ...

The image above is an extreme close-up of a common British insect called a planthopper. You’re looking at it from below, at the point where its two hind legs connect to its body. In the middle ...

The small hopping insect Issus coleoptratus uses toothed gears (magnified above with an electron microscope) to precisely synchronize the kicks of its hind legs as it jumps forward. All images ...

Insect legs could help engineers improve the safety ... In particular, they help resist a particular type of buckling called elastic buckling. This shows how material properties and geometry ...

To determine to which type of activity the exoskeletons of insect legs are best adapted, Parle and colleagues investigated the biomechanics of tibias from three insects -- desert locust ...

Similar to mammals, the “knee joint” of insect legs, the femur-tibia joint ... mechanisms by which nervous systems combine different types of proprioceptive signals to form a coherent internal ...

Insects from the Jurassic period wore clusters of eggs on their legs that dangled like grapes from a vine, fossils show. Scientists who uncovered the 160 million year old child protection strategy ...

A team of researchers from Trinity College Dublin is exploring the composition of various insect legs, in the hope of finding better ways to design long thin tube structures for applications in ...

A little leg may reveal something big about how closely related insect species can drastically differ in body shape, according to a new study led by researchers at the University of Tokyo.