The hissing noise they make is a natural defense mechanism. “Nothing says forever like a cockroach,” said Jim Breheny, Senior Vice President for Living Institutions and Director of the Bronx Zoo.

Hissing cockroaches, or hissers, are ground-dwellers, meaning they don’t have wings and Tune Into the Hisses of Madagascar’s Iconic Insect Skip to main content ...

Jim Donovan and Natasha Brown meet a Madagascar hissing cockroach, a desert millipede, a rose-haired tarantula and a vinegaroon, an arachnid that shoots out vinegar. Anwar Abdul-Qawi of the ...

Maybe creepy organisms are your and your partner's thing. The Houston Museum of Natural Science is offering Houstonians and visitors the opportunity to adopt a Madagascar hissing cockroach to ...

At the Houston Museum of Natural Science, you can name a Madagascar hissing cockroach after your one true love (or that roach-like ex). To stream KHOU 11 on your phone, you need the KHOU 11 app ...

A male Madagascar Hissing Cockroach, to be even more exact. Males, Lemann explained, have two distinct protuberances on their shoulders. “They’re like rams,” Lemann said.

For a $15 donation a Madagascar hissing cockroach can be named. The names will appear on a naming board displayed outside the Hamill Family Play Zoo. Names must be submitted by 5 p.m. on Feb. 5.

Keeping the body shape of the 6-cm-long cockroach in mind, the researchers designed a polymer backpack that could carry all the electronic equipment without disturbing the insect when it moved.

In what could be considered the most unconventional Valentine's Day gift, the Houston Museum of Natural Science is letting patrons name a Madagascar Hissing Cockroach after their loves (or their ...