Silly name, amazing spider.

A recent study from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) reveals that, despite their outsized ecological impact ...

Researchers at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, together with data scientists, have developed a new method to largely ...

Grist reports solar farms, like the Gemini project, can enhance biodiversity, supporting rare plants like the threecorner ...

A new ladybird beetle species was hiding in plain sight on a Japanese campus, exposing how easily even well-studied insects ...

The study, conducted by experts from the National University of Singapore, the Queensland University of Technology, and ...

Some microbes can squeeze through tight spaces by wrapping themselves in their flagellum—the tail-like structure they use to ...

Despite the vast differences in human and bee brains, both of us can do mathematics. As we argue in a new paper published in the journal Leonardo, our thought experiment lends weight to the idea that ...

Scientists at the American Museum of Natural History investigated old specimens that had been at the museum for decades and ...

Bees rely on sunlight and polarized light to navigate, making nighttime flight dangerous and often impossible for honey bees.

Researchers from the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco described 72 new species last year, from elegant birds ...

Scientists from the California Academy of Sciences described 72 new species last year, from elegant birds to strange sea slugs.