Insects first took to the skies about 350 million years ago, some 200 million years before birds first flapped their wings. By the end of the Carboniferous period, 300 million years ago, some flying ...

It had been a long day of teaching for Rudy Lerosey-Aubril. As a reward, he returned to cleaning an intriguing Cambrian ...

For decades, there was no record of Andrena rehni exisiting in the US. In 2018 it was found in Maryland and five years later I found it in New York State ...

Asian needle ants are spreading in. Their sting is more painful than a fire ant's and can be deadly. Know what they look like ...

Advanced breeding tools and data-driven insights are helping farmers get more yield, consistency and value from every acre.

Michael Christopher Brown Unusually for a major tourist attraction, the phrase “death trap” features prominently in the ...

An incredible fossil has become the oldest known chelicerate – the group of animals that includes spiders and scorpions.

Rocking spidery legs and surrounded by stinky mud and hordes of insects ready to take a bite, the red mangrove was a hard ...

Maryland has some of the highest cases of Lyme disease in the country. Here's how you can prevent the tick-borne disease.

What started as routine fossil cleaning turned into a major scientific surprise when researchers uncovered a tiny claw in a ...

Biologists are racing to save America’s freshwater mussels—the water-filtering keystone species that once filled the ...

Freshwater mussels are the kind most people don't even know exist. They live for decades—more than a century in some cases.