Hallucigenia was such an odd animal that palaeontologists reconstructed it upside-down when they first analysed its fossils - ...

Some insects pack a more powerful punch than others. In our slideshow we delve into the world of the top five insects with ...

Abstract: Wing flapping of insects can cause micro-Doppler patterns in the reflected signals. Here we study the feasibility of insect sensing from a joint waveform from a near-field continuous-wave ...

This fossil is 13 million years older than any ant fossil found before—and reveals a sophisticated predator that lived alongside the dinosaurs. The hell ant existed over 100 million years ago, ...

Big or small, most creatures end up on something else's dinner menu. But the velvet ant combines a ton of defenses into one ...

Plenty of great movies are turning 40 in 2026, including the likes of A Better Tomorrow, Little Shop of Horrors, Aliens, and ...

There are repeat candidates, such as the endangered Canterbury knobbled weevil ( Hadramphus tuberculatus ), as well as new contenders such as the tadpole shrimp ( Lepidurus apus viridis) which ...

Move over, Game of Thrones—ants can turn armies against their leaders and use subterfuge to take over entire kingdoms, too. This chilling discovery did not originate with a professional scientist, but ...