She says when male and female insects look different, that is called sexual dimorphism – and this can happen in a variety of ...
Monarch butterflies that hatch in the spring and early summer live fast and die young at only two to six weeks. But those that emerge in late summer can survive six to nine months. That’s long enough ...
Animals don't just see the world differently from one another, they experience time itself at dramatically different speeds.
On social media, we are introduced to so many different species that we don’t see in our everyday lives. One example is the ...
Like a duck that, on the surface, looks like it is calmly floating on the water while paddling furiously underneath, a bumble bee hovering over a flower may look like it’s not doing much to the naked ...
To stay in the air when hovering over a flower, bumble bees continually flap their wings rapidly, a metabolic process that ...
"Most adenovirus infections are mild," the expert adds. "In fact, the majority of people have no symptoms and are unaware ...
But all birds have high body temperatures. The chickadee’s best trick is to go into torpor every night, a brief form of hibernation that reduces their body temperature by 20 degrees, saving energy. In ...
Insects make up most of the species on earth and are so crucial to life in general, and yet numbers are dwindling like never before. A documentary highlights the switch ...
New facility produces and disperses sterile flies along Mexico border to protect U.S. cattle industry from New World screwworm.
Moths are declining at a rapid rate in the U.K., and artificial lighting is to blame for the decrease in population.
C Eagles, Two F/A-18E Super Hornets and Two F-35C Lightning IIs will honor America's 250th birthday by flying over Levi's ...