Michael Skvarla, director of the Insect Identification ... to compelling human interest stories. Skvarla and his colleagues eventually confirmed that the specimen was indeed a giant lacewing ...

Large enough to cover the face of a human adult, this scary-looking insect is also known among entomologists as an indicator of water quality, says the museum. The giant dobsonfly makes its home ...

Scientists have long examined the flight muscles from Lethocerus indicus as a way to better understand how the human heart works. Both the insect's flight muscle and a mammal's heart beat ...

Insects have long rivaled the best human illusionists ... Meet Phobaeticus serratipes, commonly known as the giant walking stick or giant stick insect. This enormous insect takes camouflage ...

Skvarla is director of the university's Insect Identification Lab. "The Polystoechotes punctata or giant lacewing is the first of its kind recorded in eastern North America in over 50 years -- and ...

Little did he know that years later, the giant flying bug was a "super-rare" Jurassic-era insect. The scientist originally thought the bug he plucked from the Walmart's exterior was an antlion.

The largest genome of any insect, seven times the size of the human genome, was recently discovered in a grasshopper. In a study published in PLOS ONE, researchers from the German Leibniz ...

JACKSON, MI – See giant insects closer than ever in a ... The exhibit takes people into the hidden world of insects through human-sized images of insects, Executive Director Julie Johnson ...

Michael Skvarla, director of Pennsylvania State University's Insect Identification Lab, spotted the Jurassic-era creature, otherwise known as a giant lacewing, on a shopping trip in 2012 ...