Nearly all of Florida’s Acropora coral colonies are now dead, a dramatic downfall linked to a record-breaking ocean heat wave ...

By studying antelope fossils, researchers can revisit long-standing questions about how the Cradle of Humankind’s environment ...

The science of insect and arthropod repellents is rapidly advancing, with applications extending far beyond personal ...

When you rake leaves and throw them away in the autumn, you are destroying local wildlife that use those leaves for shelter ...

Long thought extinct, a 750-limbed creature has been found near Silicon Valley—and this millipede's got claws and even its own "clothing." ...

Alternative splicing exhibits lineage-specific variability, with mammals and birds reaching the highest levels despite conserved intron-rich architectures, while unicellular eukaryotes and prokaryotes ...

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there's a Monster Mash and you can meet the “Ghosts of ...

Learn more about amber from South America, which reveals a warm, wet forest filled with insects, springtails, and spiders.

Many people use 'bug' and 'insect' interchangeably. Scientifically, insects are a broad class. True bugs are a specific order ...

Scientists have discovered prehistoric insects preserved in amber for the first time in South America, providing a fresh ...

At least six types of arthropods were found preserved, according to the study. Almost all known amber deposits from the past 130 million years have been in the Northern Hemisphere, and it's long been ...

Ant communities are sensitive to fragmentation responding through: extinction of specialist species compared with large habitats, invasion of generalist species, changes in community composition and ...