“In spring and summer, it’s common to see everything from bees and butterflies to dragonflies, fireflies, and lady beetles,” ...

Ancient Earth once buzzed with enormous dragonfly-like insects, and scientists long thought high oxygen levels made their ...

Three-hundred million years ago, the skies of the late Palaeozoic era were buzzing with giant insects. Meganeuropsis permiana, a predatory insect resembling a modern-day dragonfly, had a wingspan of ...

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With bird nesting season just around the corner, I went on a hunt to see what the newest recommendations in building, monitoring and maintaining birdhouses might be. I stumbled upon an article on ...

When people hear “insect research,” their thoughts may turn to rare, never-before-discovered species. But the research being done by Associate Professor Ryosuke Fujita of the Faculty of Agriculture ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Massachusetts residents rallied on the Boston Common on Saturday morning as part of the Stand Up For Science (SUFS) National Day ...

March 2 (Reuters) - A majority of the contributors to the federal judiciary's reference manual on scientific evidence accused court officials on Monday of letting partisan politics shape its latest ...

I didn’t taper off or make a big public declaration. I just quit after reporting on a couple of large studies that made the habit feel less casual and more like a repeated bet against my future self.

At the Center for Biological Diversity, we believe that the welfare of human beings is deeply linked to nature — to the existence in our world of a vast diversity of wild animals and plants. Because ...

Few groups in the natural world rival the sheer dominance of insects. From heavily armored beetles to aerial hunters like dragonflies and the vast organized societies of ants and termites, their ...