One moment he may be telling staff the story of meeting his wife, Jeanette, in comically unexpected fashion when he was 28.

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 ...

They are the smallest animals.But they are essential to the health of our planet.We find them under the soil, hidden in plant ...

Using high magnification scanning technology, we can identify what ancient insects were eating and where. Did a millipede eat through a stem and create a little burrow? Were tiny mites munching ...

Scientists from La Trobe University observed the ground-dwelling birds working to create habitats suitable for their diet of worms, centipedes ... them up before eating them," Dr Maisey said.

Scientists from La Trobe University observed the ground-dwelling birds working to create habitats suitable for their diet of worms, centipedes ... them up before eating them," Dr. Maisey said.

Farming” behaviour is very unusual in the non-human world. As lyrebirds forage, they cultivate the soil and shore up their own food sources.

The venom from one of the previously known spitting scorpions, the southern African Parabuthus transvaalicus, is known to cause temporary blindness in humans if the sprays hit the eyes.

Australian researchers have found superb lyrebirds ‘farm’ the forest floor to increase their prey – a behaviour rarely seen ...