Treehoppers, small plant-eating insects from the Membracidae family, are gaining interest among scientists due to their ...

He has been besieged by birds, had 120m crabs try to crawl up his trouser leg and stayed cool beside an erupting Icelandic volcano. As David Attenborough turns 100, we celebrate his most extraordinary ...

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Nature has developed some truly bizarre ways for animals to see the world around them. Some creatures have strangely shaped ...

Earth has a flair for dramatic resets, though it usually takes millions of years to deliver them. Over its long history, life has been knocked back by volcanic eruptions, climate swings, changing seas ...

Some researchers are studying desert locusts in ways that sound more like science fiction than biology, although the insect looks odd up close. Tiny backpacks, implanted electrodes, explosive scent ...

Ground beetles can look rather mundane until they eject boiling chemicals, inflate foul-smelling sprays or glint metallic armour under a macro lens. These insects may be tiny, but many sport defence ...

A sweeping study of tropical insects found that many species may struggle to survive rising global temperatures.

A Daily Mail headline, among many others, warns, “Religious leaders told 'prepare now' for UFO disclosure to unleash Bible-changing revelations.” Next month promises to be a busy one, with Steven ...

We've been looking at nature the wrong way, argues Rowan Hooper. If we stop focusing on the individual, we get a whole new ...

Supergenes are genomic regions in which multiple genes are inherited together as a unit through mechanisms that suppress recombination. In social insects, such as ants and honeybees, supergenes ...

Led by Scott Evans, assistant curator of invertebrate palaeontology at the American Museum of Natural History, it draws on ...