In 1980, a single male grasshopper was collected on the island of São Nicolau in Cape Verde. No one knew then that this moment would mark the only sighting of a species that would soon be considered ...

Pictured is Agroecotettix silverheelsi, a newly described grasshopper from Texas named in honor of Jay Silverheels, an early Native American actor. Mississippi State’s JoVonn Hill, director of the ...

Scientists have rediscovered an endangered grasshopper species in KwaZulu-Natal, underscoring the importance of small ...

Zoologist Andrew Rapp spent four hours hunched over looking through brush and scouring the short grass on the side of the road until he locked eyes with a creature once believed to be extinct. He had ...

Last summer, gray-green grasshoppers crawled and skittered and flew so thickly across Monty Lesh’s land that the ground itself appeared to be moving. As they tumbled through the grass, their powerful ...