Health officials urge Michiganders to take precautions to prevent tick bites as the blood-sucking arachnids spread to more ...

The beetle that ‘shouldn’t exist’ turns out to be a case study in how complex traits actually evolve. Here’s how it came to ...

A hidden camera captures a fascinating close-up of a rare owlfly resting delicately on a thin blade of grass. Its long ...

Amber from the Kachin region of Myanmar has preserved a wealth of fossils, offering insights into the diversity of the ...

Three-hundred-million years ago, Earth was very different. The continents had coalesced into Pangea, which was dominated in its equatorial regions by vast coal-swamp forests. With high atmospheric ...

“IT was like a scene from a horror film,” says mum Larissa Allsup, 40, who was driving along a 65mph road when she heard a loud pop. She pulled over and – as she was unbuckling her seatbelt – realised ...

Scientists have discovered a tiny termite with a head resembling that of a sperm whale, forcing a rewriting of its ...

Justin Schmidt, an entomologist, first created the Schmidt sting pain index in 1983 ...

Physicists may soon witness a cosmic fireworks show: the explosive death of a primordial black hole. Once thought to be unimaginably rare, new research suggests there’s up to a 90% chance of catching ...

An invasive ant with a venomous stinger is spreading in the U.S. ... yikes. Here's what to know about the Asian needle ant ...

The Elon Musk-led firm said its broadband-beaming asset vented its propulsion tank and saw its orbit decay rapidly, releasing a “small number of trackable low relative velocity objects” — seemingly a ...