Playing dead isn't the ultimate ghosting technique. Frogs use "tonic immobility" as a strategy to stay alive during mating ...

Understanding the evolution of insect mating behavior is essential for explaining how early insects adapted to life on land.

We look back over the year’s wildlife photographs, and hand out some much-deserved gongs to brilliant and beautiful creatures around the world ...

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If you thought only humans enslave and imprison their fellow beings, think again. A surprising discovery has come from the ...

Rising global temperatures are changing the rules for survival—and reproduction—for many species. A new study from Saint Louis University reveals that predicting which species will persist under ...

It takes Mandela Fernández-Grandon 15 minutes to train a hoverfly, a harmless wasp look-alike. The entomologist at the University of Greenwich, UK, immobilises each tiny insect in a cocoon-like holder ...

Florida's digital database of restaurant health inspections is updated regularly with information on which local restaurants pass and fail. The database can be searched by county or by restaurant name ...

Paleontologists have long wrestled with how to differentiate between male and female dinosaurs based on their fossils. But new research may bring scientists closer to identifying the sex of one group ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Tarantula mating season runs from about July to November, skewing toward October in California. Female tarantulas ...

One recent night David told me to come look at the deck door because there were two insects mating on it. It turned out that they were northern walkingsticks, although I have no idea why they chose to ...

Forget robot wolves and missile-deflecting satellites — those things are already becoming old news. Instead, future wars just might revolve around insect-size spy robots. A recent digest of ...