Flip a damp log in your backyard, and a crowd of tiny gray roly-polies usually rushes for cover. These pill bugs may look like insects, but they are actually crustaceans, distant relatives of crabs ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Conglobation protects certain pill bugs and also helps them retain moisture. Some predators have adapted to have specialized ...

Most isopods, including pill bugs, have 7 pairs of legs. Utilizing pleopodal lungs creates a permanent respiratory constraint on land. Scientists discovered crustaceans successfully adapted to dry ...

When pill bugs roll into a tiny ball, the act looks far simpler than it actually is. Known as conglobation, a pill bugs’ “ball” involves a full-body engineering trick designed to protect them from ...

Animals that curl into a ball to stay alive use one of nature’s smartest survival strategies. From hedgehogs and armadillos ...

Nature has taught some of its most vulnerable creatures a powerful lesson. When you cannot outrun danger, disappear into ...

From the heinous man-bug in Men in Black to the titular heroine in Dolores Claiborne, these great characters from '90s cinema deserve more attention.

Adam Gwon’s new musical All the World’s a Stage will be released as an original cast album. BroadwayWorld has your exclusive ...