A statewide DNA barcoding project aims to document California’s insects for the first time, creating a crucial baseline as ...

The spiny leaf insect mother not only abandons her eggs, she's also figured out how to trick someone else into protecting and ...

When we think about creatures skimming across water, images of birds landing or frogs leaping come to mind. But some of ...

Raat rani is one of those plants that people either adore or avoid completely. For some, it is planted close to windows so ...

There are repeat candidates, such as the endangered Canterbury knobbled weevil ( Hadramphus tuberculatus ), as well as new contenders such as the tadpole shrimp ( Lepidurus apus viridis) which ...

Amazonian stingless bees have become the first insect in the world to be granted legal rights, after two municipalities — Satipo and Nauta — in Peru passed an ordinance earlier this month. The move is ...

As NASA plans for long-term human missions beyond Earth, one question keeps resurfacing: how do you sustain life in places where resupply from Earth is slow, expensive, and limited? Machines and ...

Even small green spaces can bring nature back into cities, as our project in Ōtepoti Dunedin has shown. Over the past two years, Dunedin's city center has become greener and more biodiverse thanks to ...