Insect body parts have names a lot like ours — the head, thorax (chest), and abdomen. But insects are also very different from us in many ways, including: They have a hard outer skeleton, instead of ...

A team of biologists in Montana and Germany has found that, regardless of type, those insects that express a protective stick- or leaf-like appearance all evolved the same basic body parts.

So, these insects would have been developing relatively ... there was adhesion between the vegetation and the body parts themselves, which tells me that she's probably been there since very ...