In school, we learned about the asteroid that wiped out an estimated 76% of all creatures. Scientists now call this the fifth ...

A famous “oldest octopus” fossil has been exposed as a case of mistaken identity. Advanced imaging revealed hidden teeth ...

A Macroinvertebrate Sampling Program is planned for this spring and summer, and it’s free and open to all ages ...

While insects are traded legally for reasons such as research, pet markets or human consumption, these patterns are often ...

With its distinctive golden crown, red throat pouch and slender black legs, the crested crane is beloved in Uganda – ...

The year 2000 was, in so many ways, momentous. It was a new millennium, which always come with a doomsday prophecy or two; we ...

Scientists studying three of Japan’s deepest ocean trenches have documented a striking range of life forms at depths between ...

As spring blooms in British Columbia, the brilliant orange-and black pattern of a monarch butterfly's wing and the ...

Last year Kenya Wildlife Service warned of a growing demand for garden ants in Europe and Asia, where some people view them as exotic pets. An attempt to smuggle over 2,000 garden ants out of the ...

Direct survival benefits in larger groups rather than kin-selected indirect fitness primarily drive the evolution of division of labor in cooperatively breeding vertebrates, particularly under harsh ...