Would you rather fight a horse-sized duck or 100 duck-sized horses? The famous question, though implausible, reflects a ...

Adi community knowledge helps conserve Chinese pangolins in Arunachal Pradesh by improving detection and protecting habitats.

Would you rather fight a horse-sized duck or 100 duck-sized horses? As silly as it sounds, the question captures a real ...

Bees are fantastic pollinators. Without them, ecosystems would not thrive. Unfortunately, over the last 15 years, there has been a significant decline in both bee colonies and individual bees due to ...

All around you, animals are building, burrowing or stealing dwellings for themselves and their families. For others, home is ...

Since we can’t talk to them, most folks' knowledge of animals begins and ends with some biology classes and maybe a pet, perhaps even a specific animal you had a fixation on in fourth grade. So we’ve ...

Termites play a key ecological role in many tropical and subtropical ecosystems. By building and maintaining their nests and ...

Termite pellets can linger long after the insects that dropped them have disappeared. By testing for microbes in the ...

An archaeologist reveals what she learned from sifting through a 200-year-old rat nest recovered from a historic Philadelphia ...

By testing for microbes in termite excrement, researchers can distinguish old droppings from fresh, and whether a colony is ...

Scientists made a unique discovery in a cave on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola: dozens of fossilized bee nests inside rodent bones that were deposited by owls thousands of years ago.