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, ...

Cockroaches are a very ancient group of insects. They have been around virtually unchanged in general appearance since the Carboniferous period, more than 300 million years ago. Technically speaking ...

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) - The Firehouse Restaurant in Old Sacramento was closed for the second time this month for "vermin and animal contamination" after hundreds of dead cockroaches were found during a ...

Discovering roach eggs in a Houston home is rarely a one-off event. The hard, capsule-shaped casings — known as oothecae — are usually the first concrete sign that cockroaches have moved past the ...

An incredible new video captures the skin-crawling moment dozens of translucent cockroach larvae burst from their leathery egg case. The footage shows a protective egg capsule called an ootheca ...

Researchers find that a 'lost' family of cockroaches may be the missing link in the evolution of insects from prehistoric times to the present day. Often associated with dirty living conditions and ...

Ever seen a cockroach and reached for your chappal? We all have. But scientists say that's the worst thing you can do. Find ...

Tsukuba, Japan - Often associated with dirty living conditions and the spread of disease, cockroaches understandably have a bad reputation. But of the 4,600 cockroach species alive today, only a few ...