Is Paramount covering up the fact that Splinter is gay in the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie? That’s certainly the conspiracy theory flying across the internet. In the film, a romance blossoms ...

The next time a male cockroach checks into a roach motel it might be surprised to find family-planning services included. In what may be the first step toward developing cockroach birth control, ...

A new study from North Carolina State University shows the behavioral mechanism behind a sweet cockroach mating ritual that takes a bitter turn, resulting in rejected males. Male German cockroaches ...

It’s not the look in her compound eyes or the shape of her carapace that really attracts the male cockroach to his mate. Instead, it’s all those 29-carbon hydrocarbons in her cuticle that drive him ...

When a male cockroach wants to mate with a female cockroach very much, he will scoot his butt toward her, open his wings and offer her a homemade meal — sugars and fats squished out of his tergal ...

How does a cockroach's aversion to sugar turn into an aversion to mating? Researchers discover the mechanism behind this behavior. A new study from North Carolina State University shows the behavioral ...

Ariel Messman-Rucker is an Oakland-born journalist who now calls the Pacific Northwest her home. When she’s not writing about politics and queer pop culture, she can be found reading, hiking, or ...