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World's Tiniest Elvis Impersonator: You Ain't Nothin' but a Stink Bug

Call it the world's smallest -- and smelliest -- Elvis impersonator. A stink bug caught on camera by an amateur wildlife photographer in Singapore has grown the perfect camouflage: It looks like the King. Winston Jansen says he encountered the bug while on an expedition through the island's forests -- and rather than get...

Bug-Eating Ladies Speak Out for Insect Cuisine

You never forget the first bug you eat. In fact, it seems just like yesterday to Daniella Martin. "It was 10 years ago when I was getting my anthropology degree and studying pre-Columbian food in the Yucatan region of Mexico," Martin reminisced to AOL News. Back before Christopher Columbus' arrival, the amount of big...

Artists Bug Out for Insect-Themed Sand Sculptures

It's the invasion of the insects as the annual Sand Sculpting Australia exhibition has just opened on the Frankston waterfront in Melbourne. Sandstorm Events invited the best international sculptors -- including from the U.S., Canada, the U.K., the Netherlands, Ireland, Singapore and, of course, Australia -- to create...

Isabella Rossellini Weirded Out by Duck Sex

(Nov. 23) -- Hollywood actress Isabella Rossellini has no qualms about exploring the bizarre sex lives of animals on camera, but even she's weirded out by the strange exchange between ducks. Rossellini writes, produces and stars in the offbeat viral series "Green Porno: Seduce Me," in which she dresses up in animal...

Fruit Fly Gene Could Unlock the Mysteries of Human Memory

(Sept. 10) -- A breakthrough finding in the common fruit fly could help explain how humans learn and remember -- or why some suffer from conditions that limit both capacities. A team of Scripps Research Institute scientists, funded by the National Institutes of Health, used a cutting-edge method, developed in their own...

Background on insects

Insects (from Latin ', a calque of Greek ['], "cut into sections") are a class of living creatures within the arthropods that have a chitinous exoskeleton, a three-part body (head, thorax, and abdomen), three pairs of jointed legs, compound eyes, and two antennae.

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