Scientists discover three species of the famous “Sydney funnel-web spider”, including a larger and more poisonous one in ...

In the swamps of Lâm Đồng Province, Vietnam, scientists discovered the splendid fanged frog, Limnonectes splendissimus. This “large” frog, with its “fang-like” growths and “robust” body, was found ...

Dohr, Germany Info from Licensor: "Lothar Lenz and the life of wasps and honeybees - A summer in the Eifel My home is in the middle of the idyllic Eifel, surrounded by forests, meadows and fields. My ...

What do you think of when you hear the word “sparrow?” If someone had asked me this as a child, I would have said it’s a ...

In his 2017 speech, Trump pretended to stand with “struggling families.” This time, the emphasis was solely on cruelty.

The trapdoor spider is one of the sneakiest hunters in the arachnid world. These clever spiders are named for their unique hunting strategy: They build burrows with hinged "doors" made of soil and ...

Julianna Wilson had tales to tell about the spotted wing drosophila, the invasive fruit fly that’s become a major pest of ...

New research has found an insect species with markings that are so black that they’re ‘superblack’ or ‘ultrablack’, absorbing ...

A Manis indoburmanica, or Indo-Burmese pangolin, was found as a new species when it was confiscated by police. Photo from ...

For the wasp spider, tip-pore sensilla were found on the ends of the legs, where they are most likely to come into contact with what the spider is walking on. Wall-pore sensilla were found in the ...

A researcher described four new species of tarantulas, including one new genus, from India’s Western Ghats, a chain of ...

Analysis - Spiders have always lived alongside humans, so it's surprising how much we still don't know about them. One long-standing mystery was related to how spiders detect smells. Now, our latest ...