A researcher at Vanderbilt University may have found out how American cockroaches can avoid their own “zombie apocalypse.” Ken Catania, a biologist and professor at the school, videotaped interactions ...

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We all dread finding a cockroach in our house or apartment. But how do you actually know it’s a roach? The pest looks suspiciously similar to another creepy crawler: The water bug. But while these two ...

A female cockroach “Piniblattella yixianesis” center, with a long ootheca at the end of her abdomen, pauses on a tree trunk in an early Cretaceous forest. (Artwork by Dr Chen Wang) Very early on, ...