The natural world is full of animals that seem to defy logic, blurring the line between reality and imagination. Some look ...

The world’s heaviest parrot cannot fly. It does not breed every year. It only lives in one country. The Strigops habroptilus, ...

Whenever rain clouds gather over her village, Ntombenhle Ndlovu finds herself checking the weather forecast again and again, ...

An Ashland reader recently noticed some curious little, almost lantern-like attachment appearing on her spruce. At first glance, these little cocoons looked like little lanterns in her evergreen.

Hirola” translates from Somali to something like “the peaceful one” or “the lone one,” referring to its solitary habits. Like other antelopes, Hirola are social but tend to form small herds of 10 to ...

Most people think of moths as small insects fluttering across porch lights, but some species greatly challenge that image.

Water levels, plant life, and wildlife behavior shift constantly. What looks quiet on the surface often reflects ...

Like other insects, individual bees survive our harsh winters in diapause, overwintering in different stages of their life cycle: egg, larva, pupa and adult. Those individuals survive safe from the ...

With IVF, which accounts for around 2% of births in America, a woman's eggs are retrieved from her body and fertilized with ...

Some wasps are unsettling, and then there are species so extreme that even the scientists who study them reach for words like ...

New research from James Cook University has made the extraordinary discovery that epaulette sharks can reproduce and lay eggs ...

Native trees, such as oaks, have long held a special place in our culture and countryside. Now, researchers have shown that ...