Ishiguro found that the invertebrates displayed a remarkable sense of creativity as they harvested food, mated, and burrowed ...

McGowan notes he has seen mantises stalking hummingbird feeders before, but has never witnessed an attack. Anecdotal accounts ...

What are some animals that give birth to huge numbers of offspring at once?” (Watch a female sea urchin produce millions of eggs.) The mola, or ocean sunfish, looks like an animal cracker someone bit ...

The new pesticide, based on the venom of a particular spider, kills common agricultural pests but leaves honeybees unharmed. (See “Honeybees in East Africa Resist Deadly Pathogens.”) The bee-friendly ...

The winners of the 51st annual Nikon Small World photo contest offer a glimpse at some of the tiniest—and most beautiful—parts of the natural world.

Highlighting the best wildlife photography across land and sea, these the winners photos from this year's Wildlife ...

Evarcha culicivora is an indirect vampire, a spider that drinks mammalian blood by preying on female mosquitoes that have previously fed off humans.

Prioritizing which animals and plants to help is driven mostly by whether we like them or not. Some experts say that may not ...

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

To learn more about what attracts mosquitoes, researchers turned to one of the world’s least hygienic and most chaotic ...

The Museo Casa Kahlo, housed three blocks away from the famous Casa Azul, offers a window into the painter's private life.

I’ll never tire of this,” whispers Eduardo ‘Edu’ Fragoso from the driver’s seat, wearing wraparound glasses to shield himself from the sun of the Cerrado, a savannah stretching across much of central ...