Nine-banded armadillos are expanding their range eastward across North Carolina, with sightings now reported in coastal ...

While it's a good idea to avoid all fire ants, certain species can be more damaging to the local ecosystem and more dangerous ...

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A new pachycephalosaur, officially named Zavacephale rinpoche, was described in the journal Nature. The word rinpoche is ...

Humans can have extreme reactions when they come across insects – from delight at the sight of a Monarch butterfly to disgust ...

The world’s most comprehensive global inventory on extinction risk has declared the Christmas Island shrew extinct ...

Gardening mishaps can be more terrifying than Halloween decorations. Many gardeners have faced unexpected horrors in their ...

In a biological first, researchers in France have discovered a creature capable of giving birth to an entirely different species. It’s more than just the sort of hybrid births that might happen ...

THE head of the newly discovered ant species, Temnothorax melanieae n. sp., the first species described from the Philippines. Considered as pests, ants play crucial ecological roles by helping ...

Scientists have captured high-speed video of venomous snake strikes, including this dramatic footage of a copperhead. Authors of the study, which was published last week in the Journal of Experimental ...

In Brisbane, Australia in 2001, a telecommunications worker was sent to the hospital for an insect sting that was burning severely. The red fire ant, native to South America and notorious both for its ...

A recent study found that copperheads often strike in under 0.1 seconds, and their fangs can break when they bite.