A paper published last year in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface described a feather as a masterpiece of engineering, one comprising nine orders of magnitude, from the nanoscale to the meter ...

Bird watching has been popular for centuries, and songbirds have been favored subjects. During the past 30 years, songbirds have become popular laboratory animals as well. The expanded use of ...

Did you know there's an insect that naturally blends in with its surroundings? Learn all about the rare leaf insect's ...

Antique insect collections became exceedingly popular in the 1800s and early 1900s. They were often built as working ...