Scientist Inna Birchenko began to cry as she described the smoldering protected forest in Thailand where she was collecting ...

Thousands of new species are found each year. Here are three of our most recent eye-catching stories. The new species was ...

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Insects are the dominant form of animal life on our planet, providing humans and wildlife with pollination, food, and ...

Selenobrachys ustromsupasius was discovered on Romblon Island and is not known to exist anywhere else in the world, according to the study. The ustromsupasius tarantula was found at night near the ...

Fly migration has been part of written human history for millennia. In the book of Exodus, when the pharoah of Egypt didn’t ...

Before a discovery in a Panamanian rainforest, “it seemed impossible that lightning could be a good thing for the trees,” a ...

Skin flakes are hard to digest. It’s like eating hair, or feathers. So dust mites have powerful digestive enzymes to break the skin down. Those enzymes turn up in dust mite poop. And let’s just say ...

"I've seen a lot of strange insects, but this has to be one of the most peculiar-looking ones I've seen in a while," said one ...

Volunteers have planted 450 saplings from Wistman’s Wood, an ancient oak woodland covering seven acres in the Dart Valley, on Dartmoor, Devon, and installed protective guards around naturally ...

Escape into the jungle when you book a stay at this tropical treehouse Airbnb near Volcanoes National Park in Hawaii.

A hummingbird chick in Panama mimics a poisonous caterpillar to avoid predators—a rare case of bird-to-insect mimicry. When ...