Learn how tight clustering helps Madagascar’s hissing cockroaches conserve water during dry spells, offering new insight into how even large insects cope with environmental stress.

Adam and Veronica Goldstein’s reaction was not at all what you would have expected. Back on Aug. 12, the Kenner couple was cleaning up some building materials and debris, way in the back of the yard ...

In honor of the spooky season, the Lake Superior Zoo is showing off some of their creepier and crawlier residents: Madagascar Hissing Cockroaches and African Giant Millipedes. Both are detritivores, ...

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Madagascar Hissing Cockroaches hail from a big island in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Africa. They hiss to scare off enemies, though the Goldsteins’ roach must have perceived that it was among ...