Several types of insects produce bad smells, ranging from the sickly sweet and oily to the bleach-like and utterly chemical.

Dhaka, July 26 -- Scientists have proposed that the ancestors of modern vertebrates, including humans, may have passed through a "cyclops-like" stage nearly 600 million years ago, with a primitive ...

There is a temptation to herd writers into literary ghettos: southern, western, nature, historical, regional. These labels ...

The red velvet ant earned its nickname by supposedly killing cows with a single sting, yet its venom contains none of the ...

Some creatures have evolved abilities so bizarre and so singular that nothing else on Earth comes close to matching them.

A remarkable discovery has been made in East Africa’s Lake Malawi, one of the deepest bodies of water on the African ...

Norfolk: I check it every day to see what I get. This time all the creatures started fighting so I had to quickly put them back ...

Bees, snakes, bears, and elephants: how Italy’s great noble families rewrote their origins through the language of heraldic ...

Lake Malawi is the second deepest lake in Africa, with an average depth of 292 metres – although it has a maximum depth of ...

Deep-diving insect larvae are challenging a long-held idea about why there are almost no insects in the ocean, thanks to sturdy air sacs. In Lake Malawi in East Africa, billions of lake fly larvae ...

The Amazon isn't just home to jaguars and anacondas. The canopy and rivers also house creatures that have mastered an unusual ...

The next time you hear someone grumbling about insects causing a nuisance ask them to think again. We rely on insects for ...