FROSTPROOF, Fla. — A recently discovered insect in Florida is damaging grass and creating challenges for cattle farmers, including at Crooked Lake Ranch in Polk County. The pasture mealybug feeds on a ...

When a bird lunges at a butterfly in mid-flight, it may see something that is not there — the insect's wings flashing beneath ...

Captive breeding has helped New Zealand’s largest giant wētā establish new wild populations, with at least four generations ...

A new high-throughput respiration-measuring system lets scientists monitor up to 240 insects and other invertebrates at once, making it far easier to study insects' resting metabolic rates and how ...

In predation, one organism kills and consumes another. Predation provides energy to prolong the life and promote the ...

An analysis of extinct giants, including Megalodon and Titanoboa, and the environmental parameters that allowed their massive ...

Eating insects is often seen as a last resort when people are starving, and yet, in the countries where they are widely ...

Learn more about this otter-like animal that was likely a top mammal predator during the Jurassic Period.

The world's heaviest insect has made an astonishing comeback after conservationists saved the giant bug from the brink of extinction.

The population of the New Zealand endemic wetapung has been restored thanks to a breeding program in which 11,000 individuals ...

A new review in Nature Reviews Biodiversity documents how vertebrates from sloths to chimpanzees rely on insects for food, ...

Wētāpunga can weigh as much as a mouse and its numbers dwindled across New Zealand due to predators and habitat loss ...