In this particular exhibition at the Staten Island Museum, even the pink of the walls comes from bugs — in the form of lac, a coloring produced by scale insects (it’s the same natural dye used as ...

Selenobrachys ustromsupasius was discovered on Romblon Island and is not known to exist anywhere else in the world, according to the study. The ustromsupasius tarantula was found at night near the ...

This shot of a pair of courting crab spiders, taken by nature photographer Sandip Guha in Shiliguri, India, highlights the ...

Did you know there is a wonderful place dedicated to all things hummingbirds called the Hilton Pond Center for Piedmont Natural History? It is a wonderful nature preserve in South Carolina that's not ...

New Fungal Species Named in Honor of Sir David Attenborough Making Zombies of Cave Spiders on the Island of Ireland Jan. 29, 2025 — A recent study investigated the identity of a fungus found on ...

Franz Lidz A longtime senior writer at Sports Illustrated and the author of several memoirs, Franz Lidz has written for the New York Times since 1983, on travel, TV, film and theater. He is a ...

Mar. 19, 2025 — To understand why kangaroos hop -- a rarity among animals -- researchers have studied the musky rat-kangaroo (Hypsiprymnodon moschatus), a diminutive marsupial that weighs only ...