Researchers have found fossil evidence of varied creatures wooing and mating, as they continue to search for the telltale ...

Spring in Australia has arrived like a celebration. Magpies are warbling in the morning, wildflowers are bursting open across ...

These camouflaged insects, which resemble 3-4 inch brown twigs, are typically found in deciduous woods but occasionally ...

Bizarrely, Iberian harvester ant queens lay eggs that turn into male builder harvester ants, and some of her offspring are ...

A study from the University of Colorado Denver has found that more frequent and intense wildfires and rising temperatures are ...

The matador bug’s flashy leg-waving isn’t a mating ritual but a predator deterrent, revealing a surprising defense strategy shared by multiple insect species and hinting at broader evolutionary ...

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

How hard can that be?” That’s what I thought when the Student Conservation Interns and I were asked to join a researcher who was hoping to catch a particular species ...

Humans are animal chauvinists: we like our insects pretty. As fall arrives, the monarch butterfly and praying mantids may ...

If you have been reading this column for a while, you probably know that those falling leaves collecting on your lawn and ...

A town in southeastern Colorado hosts a yearly tarantula festival, attracting both tourists and scientists studying tarantula ...