Vipers have the fastest strikes, but snakes from other families can give some slower vipers stiff competition.

Andrew Forbes, professor and associate chair in the Department of Biology at the University of Iowa, and his research team are revealing the unknown ecological world of parasitic wasps.

Listers understands how technology can corrupt our leisure activities.

These enormous moths are nature’s masterpieces. Learn which species are the largest and what makes each one so extraordinary.

In the forests of South Africa lurks an arachnophobe’s nightmare – Nephila kowaci, the largest web-spinning spider in the world. The females of this newly discovered species have bodies that are 3-4 ...

A six-belted clearwing - a type of moth that mimics a wasp to evade predators - has become the 10,000th species recorded at ...

Researchers report Cretaceous insects trapped in amber from Ecuador’s Napo region, revealing a 112-million-year-old humid ...

Astronomers have yet to find irrefutable proof for any natural satellites of exoplanets—so-called exomoons—but as ...

Data from the James Webb Space Telescope and other observatories suggests a supervolcanic exomoon may lurk around the giant ...

Seal up any gaps and openings around your deck, patio, or home, such as in the eaves or siding, to keep wasps from nesting there. Repair any holes in window screens and seal gaps around windows and ...

The Wicken Fen nature reserve became the first in UK to record 10,000 species, after finding a unique moth that imitates a ...

As I mentioned in last week’s column, I have a squirrel who has made itself at home in my garden, so maybe I benefited from ...