In 2015, Professor Gervásio Silva Carvalho of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUC-RS) in the South ...

When we walked with a colleague into an aspen forest near Madison, Wisconsin, in the early spring of 2021, we expected to finalize our plans for a research project on several species of insects that ...

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Bugs aren’t just occasional nuisances, they’re crucial to the environment. Now populations of species worldwide are falling at alarming rates. The extinction of the one-inch-wide Xerces blue butterfly ...

The petrol-blue wings of a swallowtail butterfly, soft fur of a giant Patagonian bumblebee, and oil-painted smudges of a ladybug are some of the details captured by British photographer Levon Biss in ...

Since passage of the Endangered Species Act 50 years ago, more than 1,700 plants, mammals, fish, insects and other species in the U.S. have been listed as threatened or endangered with extinction. Yet ...

Some bat species seek shelter during the day in the attics of large, mostly historic buildings within human settlements, even ...

More than half of the insects newly discovered on domestic islands recently have been confirmed to be species that live in ...

As temperatures begin to warm in Texas, more critters will be out and about, basking in the sun. The Lone Star State is possibly the most diverse when it comes to bugs — Texas is home to nearly 30,000 ...

While you might assume the Nullarbor Plain is a vast expanse with not much to see, a recent discovery has stunned scientists.