A woman struggling after the death of her father turns to a pet hawk for companionship in "H is for Hawk," an emotionally raw story about grieving and learning to move on that refuses to tidy itself ...

Caitlyn Forster previously received funding from the Australian Research Council. She is affiliated with Invertebrates Australia. As the weather starts to warm in Australia, you might notice the ...

As the weather starts to warm in Australia, you might notice the pleasant flutter of butterflies in your garden during the day. And perhaps if you've left a porch light on during the night, you will ...

What initially appears to be a confusing video of a moth-hummingbird hybrid creature is actually a perfect excuse for us to explain an intriguing evolutionary phenomenon. The creature is the ...

What Is Convergent Evolution? Hummingbird Hawk-Moth Hovering Flight Dynamics Incredible Vision Why Are They Called Hawkmoths? What initially appears to be a confusing video of a moth-hummingbird ...

(CNN) — Each year, a tiny species in Australia makes a grueling 620-mile (1,000-kilometer) nighttime migration, and it’s pulling off the feat in a way only humans and migratory birds have been known ...

Even with brains smaller than a grain of rice, Bogong moths are expert navigators. By Lauren Leffer Published Jun 18, 2025 11:00 AM EDT CREDIT: Dr. Ajay Narendra (Macquarie University, Australia) Get ...

Each spring, billions of bogong moths fill southeast Australia’s skies. Fleeing the lowlands and trying to beat the heat, they fly roughly 600 miles to caves embedded in the Australian Alps. The moths ...

Every spring in the Southern Hemisphere, Bogong moths migrate up to 621 miles (1,000 kilometers) from southeast Australia to spend the summer in cool caves in the Australian Alps. At the beginning of ...

Australian migratory moths use the night sky to maintain their course when they travel long distances to shelter in cool caves during the arid summer. Kenneth J. Lohmann is in the Department of ...

For the first time, biologists have linked the ribbony “tails” streaming from big, green luna moths’ hind wings with, of all things, a cozy climate. Those dangling wing tails rank among such evolution ...