Scientists discovered a moth that appears 3D despite having flat wings. Tiny structures on its wings reflect light that ...

A lime green leaf scratches through a pile of brown leaves ... by the almost comical earnestness of the charade they embody. The "twig" is a stick insect, a magnificent specimen of the Phasmatodea ...

A team of biologists in Montana and Germany has found that, regardless of type, those insects that express a protective stick- or leaf-like appearance all evolved the same basic body parts.

"Phasmids (stick and leaf insects) exemplify the extraordinary power of natural selection to shape organismal phenotypes," the team explained in their study. "The animals themselves are ...