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Scientists at the American Museum of Natural History investigated old specimens that had been at the museum for decades and ...

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 ...

The diversity of water strider species apparently developed as early as the Cretaceous period, much earlier than previously thought. SNSB researchers have succeeded in clarifying the phylogenetic ...

Scientists have identified a new species of non-biting midge—a type of small fly—from 151-million-year-old specimens discovered by an amateur fossil hunter. Louise Reily / Australian Museum Amateur ...

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 ...