Pair bonding - two animals forming an exclusive, long-term partnership - is almost unheard of in insects. Now scientists say they may have found it in a cockroach, and the way these roaches seal the ...

Scientists have discovered that, far from being solitary insects, some cockroaches appear to form an exclusive bond with a partner. And how do they get this relationship off the ground? By eating each ...

Humans might show commitment with a ring, penguins offer prospective mates rocks and some beetles gift a ball of dung. Wood-feeding cockroaches show commitment with a nibble of cannibalism — and then ...