Swarms of Mormon crickets are making their way through Southeast Idaho on their migratory routes, with insects spotted in ...

Some ants take herding to a new level by “farming” other insects. Aphids, the small, sap-sucking bugs, are herded and cared for by certain ant species just as humans herd cattle.

Cuteness can shift moods and lower cortisol, and science backs it up. Looking at baby animals, like a seal pup blinking on a ...

Beacon Hill Country Park in Woodhouse Eaves is home to one such herd and from April to October the cattle are in view of visitors as part of a heathland restoration project.

The U.S. government plans to open what amounts to a fly factory by the end of the year to breed millions of the insects in ...

A first-ever collaboration between the National Gallery of Art and the Smithsonian examines the birth of natural history.

The Trump administration plans to breed billions of flies to airdrop over Mexico and southern Texas in an effort to stamp out ...

I grew up on a small farm in central Pennsylvania with a small herd of cattle, pigs and chickens, but my folks weren’t real farmers. My father was an insurance agent and my mother a homemaker.

The US government is poised to open an unusual new facility in Texas by the end of the year: a "fly factory" designed to combat a flesh-eating parasite threatening American cattle.

Reaching herd immunity means each infected person can infect only one other person or fewer, on average. That means, at the high end of the measles range, you’d need to prevent 17 of 18 ...

A lone Tyrannosaurus rex sniffs the humid Cretaceous air, scenting a herd of Triceratops grazing beyond the tree line. As the predator scans the floodplain, its vision suddenly snaps into focus. A ...

A herd of elephants at the San Diego Zoo acted on instinct and formed an “alert circle” around their young to protect the calves against the earthquake that rattled Southern California on ...