Information on Earth's biodiversity is increasingly collected using DNA-, image- and audio-based sampling. At the same time, ...

Measuring our own heart rate seems like a straightforward idea, but how would you go about taking the pulse of a grasshopper or a spider? A new technique has been developed to measure the heart rate ...

The Texas A&M doctoral student scanned the trail ahead as galaxies of dust spun in his headlamp’s cone of light. While two of his entomology colleagues turned over rocks to see what insects might be ...

Grazing is regarded as one particularly beneficial practice to biodiversity on farms, especially if it is practiced on ...

A prehistoric predator once hailed as the world’s largest spider has been unmasked as something entirely different. More than ...

PARIS -- UNESCO has designated 26 new biosphere reserves in 21 countries, including two in China, bringing the world network ...

For decades, we’ve heard warnings that humanity is teetering on the edge of a new “mass extinction.” But a new study paints a ...

Millipedes aren’t perhaps the world’s most sought-after animals, but in all those legs, there is chemical gold. The humble ...

Meet the rare trilobite beetle with an ancient armored body and learn why it fascinates scientists with its mysterious life ...

Bake them, freeze them, fire them from a gun or blast them into space: tardigrades can survive almost anything. Some experts think they might even survive right up until the Sun dies.

A honeybee hive, with its large stores of pollen, wax, and honey, is like a fortress guarding treasure: with strong defenses, but a bonanza for ...

Scientists have discovered prehistoric insects preserved in amber for the first time in South America, providing a fresh ...