Teeth in the insect’s hard outer covering stick out 30 micrometers at the most, each tapering to a point. The teeth synchronize the legs, Burrows concludes.

Each leg sports a curved strip of 10 to 12 gear teeth that attach to the trochantera on the insect's legs. These structures were described in 1957, but no one had demonstrated that the gears were ...

The image above is an extreme close-up of a common British insect called a planthopper. You’re looking at it from below, at the point where its two hind legs connect to its body. In the middle ...

Their two hind legs move within 30 microseconds of each other during a launch, compared with the two- to three- millisecond delay between the two hind legs of grasshoppers.

I hypothesize that a lot of insects cross their legs when they dry, not when they die, says Jeffrey Shultz, an entomologist at the University of Maryland. The key, Shultz says, may lie in a ...

And weevil legs beat us to the screw-and-nut mechanism. The insect Issus coleoptratus is another animal with an unexpected bit of machinery hidden in its body.

News Family Ask Dr. Universe: Some insect legs and feet specially adapted to cling to stuff May 9, 2025 Updated Sun., May 11, 2025 at 4:51 p.m. Even surfaces that seem smooth have slight ...

Crustaceans usually have 10 limbs. Arachnids have eight legs. Myriapods can have hundreds of legs. Insects have all the limb genes crustaceans have, but some of those genes are turned off.