Ancient Earth once buzzed with enormous dragonfly-like insects, and scientists long thought high oxygen levels made their ...

Jason Segel and Samara Weaving discuss Over Your Dead Body, the most challenging scenes to pull off, and their only autograph ...

The beetle that ‘shouldn’t exist’ turns out to be a case study in how complex traits actually evolve. Here’s how it came to ...

Health officials urge Michiganders to take precautions to prevent tick bites as the blood-sucking arachnids spread to more ...

An invasive ant with a venomous stinger is spreading in the U.S. ... yikes. Here's what to know about the Asian needle ant ...

Three-hundred-million years ago, Earth was very different. The continents had coalesced into Pangea, which was dominated in its equatorial regions by vast coal-swamp forests. With high atmospheric ...

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Two young children and a woman suffered burns after multiple manhole covers exploded in lower Manhattan Thursday afternoon, cops and sources said. The sudden blast occurred just before 4 p.m. at the ...

One thing makes parasitic or “zombie” fungi terrifying in the horror genre, and that is fungi like this exist in real life. The fungus called Ophiocordyceps unilateralis has kept its preference for ...

Even Antarctica’s toughest native insect can’t escape the reach of plastic pollution. Scientists have discovered that Belgica antarctica — a tiny, rice-sized midge and the southernmost insect on Earth ...