A deadly fly once wiped out across North America has resurfaced in northern Mexico – and it’s creeping ever closer to the US ...

A bane of farmers’ existence, it’s estimated that plant-eating pests are responsible for the loss of as much as 40 percent of ...

Among mammals, females generally live longer. The recent comparative study examined 528 mammal species in zoos and found that ...

Women tend to live longer than men, and while the extra years can be partially attributed to biology, behavioral differences ...

Scientists designed microrobots that use sound to swarm, adapt, and heal themselves — working together like a living organism ...

Across mammal species, from baboons and gorillas up to humans, females usually live longer than the males do. However, this ...

Researchers who analyzed data from zoo animals found that it is not only genetics, but mating pressures that may determine ...

Prioritizing which animals and plants to help is driven mostly by whether we like them or not. Some experts say that may not ...

Europe’s largest bat hunts and eats birds midair, finally solving a 25-year mystery about how these nocturnal predators ...

The Pasadena Public Health Department Friday reported the city’s first case of West Nile virus in a human. The actual confirmation was made Thursday and no details were released about the ...

Like the novel, del Toro’s Frankenstein starts with a frame story set in the Arctic. A ship on an expedition to the North ...

The bite of a black widow spider can initially feel like a sharp stabbing pain, or it can be deceptively subtle, barely ...