One of California's most iconic animals is in trouble. A preliminary tally of monarch butterflies that spend the winter along ...

Firefly populations are declining, taking our wondrous summer views with them. Read all about the driving forces behind this ...

In Rebecca Gilman’s 2022 play “Swing State,” a grief-stricken widow mourns the loss of the insect, plant and animal species that once thrived on her 48 acres of grassland in the American heartland.

Researchers at the University of Memphis used a free app to rediscover a species of beetle that was thought to be extinct.

Hannah’s colleague Molly Jacobson was the first to find the chestnut mining bee, or “Andrena rehni” in New York since 1904 ...

Over 300 million years ago, before the age of giant dinosaurs, Earth was covered with giant insects. Why were insects so enormous during this time? What did oxygen have to do with it? And why did ...

One of South London’s largest parks could soon welcome some unusual new residents, as plans to introduce a colony of ...

A team of researchers studied the effects of heat on the survival and reproduction of Missouri treehoppers. "This is more of ...

The released birds are the closest living relatives of the extinct Arabian ostrich. The flightless animals' return is part of ...

Ten endangered white-lipped peccaries were found slaughtered inside Costa Rica’s Golfo Dulce Forest Reserve on the Osa ...

A six-century silence is ending in London's skies. White storks, extinct locally since the Middle Ages, will be reintroduced ...

Scientists from the California Academy of Sciences described 72 new species last year, from elegant birds to strange sea ...