A complete Cretaceous shellfish fossil. (University of Portsmouth) Nature has imbued its mothers with many surprisingly ...

Wasp inside an electron microscope Common Hoverfly Parasitoid Wasps! Today we're looking at a wasp I found in my backyard. This little insect lays its eggs inside of other hosts (hoverflys), which ...

Godzilla has battled his way through dozens of enemies across his 70-year history, but some fights and action scenes stand ...

Classified under the order Hymenoptera and the family Sphecidae, this is a beautiful insect with a metallic blue sheen over its entire body, belonging to the tribe Sceliphronini. A 'Jigabachi' ...

These wildly different films explore the wondrous, and sometimes terrifying possibilities of contacting extra-terrestrial life.

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