Most insects are unstudied, but scientists created a global framework to understand and protect them using all available knowledge.

There’s no single, simple way to assess whether bugs feel pain, but research is giving scientists a better understanding of their abilities.

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

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

The Hoh Rainforest contains one of the most peaceful spots in the United States, marked as ‘One Square Inch of Silence’ in ...

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One thing that makes this rainforest animal unique among Australian bats is that it’s a carnivore. False Vampire bats eat birds, frogs, insects, mammals, and reptiles. They also aren’t above eating ...

It has 30 opsins, the universal photoreceptor molecule that resides in the visual systems of the animal kingdom. I look back with my three opsins and two blue corneas. At the fishpond where I am ...

"In the midst of the sadness, we want to honor the life of this chick for its courage in getting as far as it did and for the joy it brought to us in its short time here." One of three eaglets ...

This may sound simple enough, yet the relative importance of dispersal and speciation in generating the tropical Asian diversity of plants, fungi and animals is unknown, even for the largest islands.