The biorobotics lab where Fitzgerald works is putting control backpacks onto giant burrowing cockroaches, a species native to Australia which can grow up to three inches (eight centimeters ...
Cenac said that he was “a couple of bourbons in” when the idea hit him. Why not put a big cockroach on the boat? Milanese was onboard. He loved the idea. “For me to get involved,” he said ...
Scientists have termed it the “most bizarre cockroach” that has ever lived (that we currently know of) and for good reason. The volume of its head, on which its big, sclerotic jaws occupy ...
Cockroaches are a hardy pest, and often elicit disgust. But they do have a few things going for them: They are cheap, can be raised in a space as small as a shoebox, and aren’t dangerous to humans.