To tap an unlikely source of nutrition, insects small enough to sit on a pencil eraser have to suck harder than any known creature. Philaenus spumarius froghoppers pierce plants with their mouthparts ...
About 165 million years ago — Bam! — froghoppers' mating session was interrupted by a volcanic eruption. Now, scientists have unearthed a fossil in China that shows the two creatures immortalized in ...