For children who are not into climbing, there are nature-based play areas with elevated mounds, rides, slides and balancing ...

Invasive alien species don’t only drive out other native species, they also dramatically transform soils, water and ecosystems. A new assessment tool aims to pinpoint the negative environmental ...

Nocturnal insects may use both Earth's magnetic field and visual cues to guide their migratory flight behaviors, according to recent findings. The research, published in eLife, presents compelling ...

Orchid Mantis. Image by Pavel Kirillov from St.Petersburg, Russia, CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. The Orchid ...

Is it an alien or just a bizarre insect? Join me as I investigate this strange creature and uncover the truth behind its mysterious appearance. United Nations faces 'imminent financial collapse' ...

An infographic showing the average declines in abundance of key terrestrial insect groups due to invasive alien species. The extent of declines varies across species and regions. Insects are often ...

A British company breeding mosquitoes whose offspring cannot spread malaria is set to start releasing the insects into Djibouti city by the end of the year. Genetically-engineered male mosquitoes ...

Presumed extinct for nearly a century, one of the world’s rarest insects was quietly clinging to life in a place no one expected. Then in 2001, an unlikely discovery stunned the scientific community.

Is it the invasion of the genome snatchers? Just in case the idea of aliens walking around in human skin suits wasn’t frightening enough. An outlandish study asserts that aliens might have abducted us ...