On an August morning last year, an American couple soon to embark on a European river cruise awoke in a luxury hotel in ...

Taylor Swift is now the namesake of a genus of plant-feeding insects from Australia that were previously unknown to science.

Analysis of fossilized remains from dinosaurs known as troodontids reveals how one species' hip and leg bones may have ...

She’s a Grammy Award-winning international superstar, and now, Taylor Swift is also a genus of plant-feeding insects from ...

Fungi aren’t generally known for their speed, yet one group is quicker off the mark than perhaps any other organism on the ...

Insects quietly hold much of the natural world together, yet conservation efforts are overlooking the tropical regions where more than 80 percent of insect species live. Monash University researchers ...

Fireflies flash, crickets chirp, and sea lions bark. Three examples with signals so radically different that they seem to ...

An analysis of sound-making structures on preserved wings reveals the mating calls of ancient Jurassic insects, re-creating ...

Flora/Fauna, a plant store in Atlanta, has seen a sharp increase in demand in the last year. “We’ve always carried them, but ...

A laboratory accident at a Canadian university led to a discovery about one of North America’s most familiar pollinators.

The ability of animals to reproduce on their own has evolved over and over again. But one group has been doing it longer than ...

An estimated six million species of insect—maybe even more—call Earth home. Yet for some reason, none of them are found in the ocean. Scientists have come up with a few possible explanations, and a ...