The much-loathed cockroach is the inspiration for a new robot which has been earmarked for a range of uses, including search and rescue missions.

Wiring miniature computers into the nervous system of cockroaches allowed to send them into dirty and small places, such as sewers, to find faults.

A new species of cockroach, the world’s only known jumping cockroach, has been discovered in the middle of Cape Town’s Table Mountain National Park.

While they have been fighting wars in Asia and the Middle East, it seems that United States troops have allowed a counter-invasion of their country.