An aardvark digs enthusiastically, hunting for hidden insects in its cozy home.

Robins need feed well during the day to survive cold winter nights. This quick and easy gardening task helps them – and it doesn't involve a feeder.

Antique insect collections became exceedingly popular in the 1800s and early 1900s. They were often built as working ...

Many species of fungus across the world produce psilocybin, a chemical with psychedelic effects in humans, but its ...

The diversity of water strider species apparently developed as early as the Cretaceous period, much earlier than previously ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. The Lord Howe stick insect (Dryococelus australis) was ...

These fragile traces, buried deep under layers of fragile shale once formed by the bed of an old lake, are the oldest known Chironomidae family midges in the Southern Hemisphere. Trump Considers ...

In Vermont, researchers have investigated the types of creepy, crawly bugs that their avian predators consume and may have found the answers to keeping them both alive A veery gets ready to rise into ...

Austin Baker and his team at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County are leading an ambitious effort to DNA-barcode every insect species in California as part of the statewide CalATBI ...

Read full article: As fall dominates US, 2nd tornado season of the year set to begin At the surface, as we begin Halloween, high pressure is forecast to get yanked over us and off the east coast ...

Researchers have unearthed South America’s first amber deposits containing ancient insects in an Ecuadorian quarry, offering a rare 112-million-year-old glimpse into life on the supercontinent ...

er love for insects started early. “From the moment I could walk, I was outside looking at insects,” she said. “I even kept a journal as a kid with poorly drawn and labeled bugs from my grandparents’ ...