For a brief period of a few weeks in the summer, male stag beetles (Lucanus cervus) fly in search of a mate. They use their spectacular jaws to wow the ladies and conduct dramatic duels with their ...

Cockroaches that catch a ride on ants. Grasshoppers that climb aboard sheep. Hitchhiking animals are more common than you ...

Without pollinators, we wouldn’t have one out of every three bites of food we eat. That’s because about 35 percent of the ...

Dutch Elm Disease — we’ve all seen the signs warning about the transport of elm firewood at campgrounds and on roadways ...

In a buoyant episode of his "True Facts" series, narrator Ze Frank takes an amusing look at the physics of water walking ...

A study conducted at the University of Helsinki shows that as the climate changes, species adapted to a warm climate, such as certain birds and ...

Discover where to find fireflies in Texas and learn how to protect these glowing beetles with tips from experts.

Bellevue Botanical Garden will debut a new feature this spring: Habitats at Home. Ahead of Earth Day, we got the scoop on the ...

Vast areas of habitat for small mammals and birds, including butterflies, beetles and falcons have been damaged, while some ...

The animal kingdom gives us rainbows of color with butterflies and chameleons, and clownfish, but birds give us just as much ...

It’s the birds, first and foremost, a more audible than visible beauty. Here in the middle of the Midwest, we boast an ...