With 11,000 species of insects known in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, how do you write a guide to them? Jim and Leslie Costa have a unique idea ...

A declaration signed by dozens of scientists says there is ‘a realistic possibility’ for elements of consciousness in reptiles, insects and molluscs. Armed with such research, a coalition of ...

Crows, chimps and elephants: these and many other birds and mammals behave in ways that suggest they might be conscious. And the list does not end with vertebrates. Researchers are expanding their ...

Sep. 26—They began blooming about mid-July. Since then, various species spread and filled the roadsides and fields with continuous flowers. Except for a white one that grows along the shores of Lake ...

As a boy in the 1960s, David Wagner would run around his family’s Missouri farm with a glass jar clutched in his hand, scooping flickering fireflies out of the sky. “We could fill it up and put it by ...

They began blooming about mid-July. Since then, various species spread and filled the roadsides and fields with continuous flowers. Except for a white one that grows along the shores of Lake Superior, ...

When Dwayne LaGrou asked Weird Animal Question of the Week what animals have the largest eyes for their body size, we were ...

Researchers report Cretaceous insects trapped in amber from Ecuador’s Napo region, revealing a 112-million-year-old humid ...

How surely every drop of water that sees the light in the most remote mountain or forest recesses finds it way to the sea, if not in some way intercepted. How surely the springs collect into rivulets, ...