Previously, researchers created electrical implants to control cockroaches' movements for search-and-rescue missions. Now, ...

The evolutionary paths that created snatching forelimbs in insects multiple times moved in a similar direction but didn't end ...

A barren stretch of volcanic rock rising from the Atlantic Ocean may not sound like one of the world's most protected places, ...

Zoraptera, also known as angel insects or ground lice, are tiny termite-like insects generally found underneath bark or in ...

Dr. Taylor Yaw, vice president of science and animal health, shows how doctors can enlarge and manipulate an x-ray image of a cownose ray during a tour of the Grewcock Animal Hospital at Omaha's Henry ...

Giraffe intelligence research is changing how the world views animal cognition. A new scientific discovery shows that ...

For 40 years, we thought Earth was home to six million insect species. Turns out, it could be three times that.

It’s after the great extinction, with so many ecological niches now eerily empty, that birds start to diversify and specialize.

By Brenden BobbyReader Columnist You probably haven’t put a lot of thought into the contents of your down comforter, or the ...

People, pets and livestock have long been protected through vaccines, but scientists are now extending that approach to ...

One day, I saw a child in a park holding an insect cage. There were several insects inside. The child was absorbed in observing them. and sometimes adding new insects. It was a very common sight. But ...

Thanks to the tagging efforts of the Loess Hills Master Naturalists, Monarch Watch, an organization based at the University of Kansas that tracks and studies monarch butterflies, has ...