Around 16,000 new species are described each year, but most animals and plants are listed as threatened as soon as they are ...

Through pollination and feeding on all parts of plants, insects influence which plants thrive, which struggle, and even ...

The Christmas Island shrew, a species of cone snail (Conus lugubris), the slender-billed curlew, and three Australian mammals ...

They drew with crayons, possibly fed on maggots and maybe even kissed us: Forty millenniums later, our ancient human cousins ...

The Natural History Museum of Denmark houses a unique collection of 70,000 pieces of amber from various time periods.

New species are being discovered faster than ever before - at a rate of more than 16,000 every year, suggests a new study.

I n a first for nature and the planet, an insect has been given official legal rights. The revolutionary move comes from Peru ...

How Delaware schoolkids turned the agile gray fox into a symbol of history, resilience, and year‑round wildness.

Rare attacks helped brand the cassowary as deadly, but habitat loss and human activity now pose a far greater threat to the ...

There are repeat candidates, such as the endangered Canterbury knobbled weevil ( Hadramphus tuberculatus ), as well as new ...

Insects thrive in incredibly diverse and challenging environments. While we now know that nutrient-sensing pathways, ...

For human societies, insects are part of a shared ecology involving the gamut of symbiotic relations. Insects (and arthropods ...