This remarkable discovery, made by an international team of scientists led by Dr. David Hone of Queen Mary University of London, sheds light on a longstanding mystery about how these enigmatic ...

It grows into a small, half-inch moth with mottled brown and gray wings ... not killed by budworms become more vulnerable to other insects such as bark beetles and wood borers and diseases like root ...

The history of a major animal group, composed of millions of species of insects, arachnids, and nemotodes, has been elusive -- until now. A team has now identified the oldest known ecdysozoan in the ...

This is because they eat a range of plants like grapes, hops, stone fruits, and hardwood trees (especially the Tree of Heaven). As they eat, the bugs leave behind a sticky, oozing residue called ...

Aloft over the landscape of Bavaria some 147 million years ago was a pterosaur - an ancient flying reptile - with a wing span of about 7 feet (2 meters), a bony crest on front of its snout and a ...

Found in southern Germany, the fossil is notable for being nearly complete and preserved in three dimensions—a rarity in ...

While there might be a pretty incredible array of creatures living on planet Earth at the moment, let's take a second to wind ...

The pterosaurs are extinct flying reptiles that lived alongside their close relatives, the dinosaurs. The largest of these ...

The Nightjar gets its name from its harsh jarring call uttered at night. The species is a bird that most people, me included, ...

A whiff of rotting flesh, the flash of a painted eye, a dead-faint to the floor: Nature is full of cunning survival tricks, ...

We always love sharing the best photographers out there, and this time, we’ve prepared some spectacular shots that bring the ...

Spinning tall tales is as old as the mountains, and many of today's storytellers learned at the feet of their parents and ...