Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Maintaining high levels of hydration is essential for terrestrial gill function in pill bugs. The pleopodal lungs create a ...

WASHINGTON -- Bugs don't have lungs, so how do they breathe? Maybe more efficiently than people, according to the first close-up view of insects forcing air in and out of tiny oxygen pipes. It took ...

A new study offers clues as to how the insects survive flooding as they emerge from a hibernation-like phase every winter. By Jason P. Dinh If you want to be queen, don’t hold your breath. That is, if ...

After scientists accidentally discovered that the common eastern bumblebee can withstand flood conditions, they wanted to investigate what makes that super-ability possible Common eastern bumblebee ...

Flip a damp log in your backyard, and a crowd of tiny gray roly-polies usually rushes for cover. These pill bugs may look like insects, but they are actually crustaceans, distant relatives of crabs ...

Maintaining high levels of hydration is essential for terrestrial gill function in pill bugs. The pleopodal lungs create a biological bottleneck that dictates precise microhabitat selection. Modern ...