And since 1994, the festival has included an insect art contest for area elementary and high school students. The point of the festival, says Berenbaum's grad student Cynthia McDonnell, is to improve ...

Several dozen rats live together in colonies led by one dominant rat—the queen. As in some insect species, the queen is the only naked mole rat female to breed and bear young. Worker animals dig ...

The elusive desert rat-kangaroo, or ngudlukanta, believed extinct, may yet roam the Sturt Stony Desert. New skull biomechanics research suggests its diet was softer than previously thought, relying on ...