Centipedes indoors are not a threat but beneficial predators controlling other pests. They enter homes seeking shelter, ...

On night walks through Highgate Wood, Cindy Blaney shares the whirling wonder of the often-maligned mammals with the humans ...

It’s hard to believe that these nine movies from 1996 are already about to be 30 years old, but that’s a landmark worthy of ...

Inspection of incoming plants by the Hawaii Department of Agriculture and USDA, plus support of the University of Hawaii ...

The detection of mercurial particles of light emanating from mice led to a flurry of interest in biophotons, a mysterious ...

Fossil insect find, Zekuforma maculata, reveals a land-to-water experiment in evolution, rewriting 230 million years of true ...

California researchers are preparing for the possible return of the New World screwworm, a parasitic fly that feeds on living flesh and once devastated U.S. livestock. By monitoring traps and ...

Once in a while we get asked, “how cold does it have to get to kill insects?” Perhaps it is important to understand why cold temperatures kill insects. Insects are unlike mammals and birds because ...

Mosquitoes capable of carrying life-threatening diseases have reached the Mountain West, far from their typical tropical and subtropical habitats. In Grand Junction, Colorado, public health workers ...

National Geographic Explorer Ronan Donovan, a wildlife biologist turned conservation photographer, will be coming to the Wheeler Opera House in Aspen on Dec. 16 to explore what it means to be human in ...

A global research team led by researchers from the University of Kentucky Martin-Gatton College of Agriculture, Food and Environment has found that Antarctica's only native insect is already ingesting ...

It seems that domestic cats were not the first felines to live with humans, a study undertaken in China has revealed. In fact, the cats we are most familiar with they only arrived in the region via ...