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I never had ant problems, until we moved to California. The ants that invaded our house were different from any ants I had ...

Queensland insect enthusiasts are snapping photos of their backyard bugs to help researchers monitor native and invasive ...

Eating insects has long been a staple in parts of Asia and Latin America, and now the practice is slowly making its way into ...

We have some fancy names for certain styles of foods such as charcuterie for a tray of appetizers and etouffee for shrimp stew. Shall we move on to “entomophagy” for ...

These are the smallest programmable autonomous robots that I have seen,” said Kevin Chen, an MIT roboticist who wasn’t ...

From disease-spreading mosquitoes to venomous scorpions, here are the deadliest insects in India and why they pose serious risks to humans.

The Namib desert’s sand can be burningly hot but its air, blowing in off the Atlantic Ocean, is cool. Running generates a wind over the body. We concluded that the heat from the sun and from the ...

Covered in overlapping keratin scales, the African pangolin looks more like a walking pinecone than a mammal. Yet, not many can tell how essential the. Check out our stories from Culture, Living, ...

COLUMN. British anthropologist Mark Dyble analyzed genetic data from 70 mammalian species to gain a deeper understanding of ...

Crickets chirp in the night as Gerardo Marrón calls to an elf owl on a Baja California Sur mountainside in late October.