Likening it to providing more runways at busy airports, researchers at North Carolina State University found in a new study that adding protruding rocks to restored streams can help attract female ...

Ancient fossils suggest insects conquered land through a long amphibious phase rather than making an abrupt jump from water to dry ground. A newly identified 324-million-year-old species still carried ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Pharmaceuticals have a wide range of detrimental side effects on people. Scientists also know that pharmaceutical pollution is widespread in ...

Light pollution—too much artificial light in the wrong place at the wrong time is one reason for the decline in insect numbers worldwide. New research from the Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology ...

The formation of complex terrestrial ecosystems was a significant innovation in the evolutionary history of life on Earth. This event signified the expansion of life beyond marine environments and ...

Today, insects occupy nearly every terrestrial environment on Earth and account for more described species than any other ...

The C. praecursor specimens were found inside calcareous claystone concretions in the Tesnus Formation of the Marathon Uplift ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Building robots that can effortlessly mimic the movements of insects on water has been a persistent challenge in robotics. The ability to move autonomously and efficiently in ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. New research from Brazil shows terrestrial insects there are declining both in abundance and diversity, while aquatic insects are largely staying ...

For nearly 40 years, one of the strangest insects ever found was hiding in plain sight, mislabeled as a baby crustacean. The ...