Whirligig beetles, the world's fastest-swimming insect, achieve surprising speeds by employing a strategy shared by fast-swimming marine mammals and waterfowl, according to a new study that rewrites ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Building robots that can effortlessly mimic the movements of insects on water has been a persistent challenge in robotics. The ability to move autonomously and efficiently in ...

To swim underwater, hundreds of species of insects like the water boatman bring along their own air bubbles. What is even more remarkable is that the air bubbles automatically refill with oxygen, ...

Fly, swim, crawl: The insects that call Glacier home Milbert's Tortoiseshell - Aglais milberti Jacob W. Frank/NPS ...