Like humans, insects possess sensory organs responsible for vision, hearing, smell, taste, and touch. For vision, insects ...

Found in an Ecuadorian quarry, this amber preserves insects and plant material and provides an intimate look into life on the ...

Researchers report Cretaceous insects trapped in amber from Ecuador’s Napo region, revealing a 112-million-year-old humid ...

A person living in the suburbs of New York City has tested positive for chikungunya, a mosquito-borne virus that is more often seen in South America and hasn’t ...

Keeping leaves in your yard can bolster the number and variety of species around — and the perks go beyond just the fall ...

She’s read up on the fungi that take over flies’ bodies, partially digesting them from the inside out before forcing them to climb up blades of grass, so that fungal spores can explode out from their ...

Keeping leaves in your yard can bolster the number and variety of species around — and the perks go beyond just the fall ...

Social-media users were alarmed by the sighting in the viral post, with one saying: "I hate everything about this." ...

TUCSON, Ariz. — For decades, we’ve heard warnings that humanity is teetering on the edge of a new “mass extinction.” Some scientists have even suggested that the unraveling of ecosystems could ...

Brandon Woo’s boots crunched on the gravelly Tobe Spring Trail as he hiked into the cool August night. Stars pricked through the moonless sky, casting a pale glow on the path that cut through a canyon ...

Animal life seemed to explode into a wide variety of new forms in the Cambrian period. Sun et al. (2002). National Science Review. via Wikipedia under CC By 4.0 Sometime before 520 million years ago, ...

Fossils usually leave us with bones turned to stone, the hard remains of creatures long gone. But every so often, nature offers something far rarer — a glimpse of soft tissue that survived for ...