An insect has the "mind-boggling" ability to generate its own heat to avoid freezing to death, reveals new research. Snow ...

Picture a baby dragonfly.

If it is a female, this is the stage when it hooks itself onto its victim – in most cases the common shore crab. When firmly ...

A hand-sized spider from Asia that can travel by air is expanding its US web presence, penetrating deeper into the country ...

These aren't the northern cardinals and blue jays of your backyard. I recently spent six days in Costa Rica, birding my heart ...

The platypus is one of nature’s strangest mammals. This egg-laying animal sweats milk, hunts by sensing electrical signals, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. University of Queensland researchers studied peptides in the bodies of these wasps. Source: Dr Sam Robinson Scientists studying ...

Close-up of Pseudoproscopia latirostris, a unique grasshopper species with an elongated head. Native to South America, it uses its distinctive shape as camouflage in ...

Studying how honeybees process information may help humans communicate with aliens, according to a new thought experiment. Although the ancestors of honeybees and humans diverged in evolution more ...

Scarlett Howard currently has funding from the Australian Research Council and the Hermon Slade Foundation. Adrian Dyer receives funding from the Australian Research Council, the Alexander von ...