If you’ve ever wondered what heaven looks like for someone who loves bugs, The Insect Asylum in Chicago is probably it. This peculiar little museum in Logan Square celebrates the six-legged, the ...

After scientists accidentally discovered that the common eastern bumblebee can withstand flood conditions, they wanted to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Because pigs have remarkably similar anatomy to humans, knowing the signs of decomposition in the animals can help identify hidden ...

A newly identified termite species with a whale-like head reveals unexpected diversity within the Cryptotermes genus.

Scientists created the largest 3D archive of ant anatomy ever assembled, scanning nearly 2,200 specimens across almost 800 ...

For years, we suspected that Alvarezsaurids underwent a rare process of evolutionary miniaturization directly coupled to a ...

Insects are capable of reproducing in fascinating ways. Throughout the world, these diverse critters feature a wide range of ...

Using a synchrotron powered CT scanner, the Antscan project created an open-source digital library cataloguing thousands of ...

The “Antscan” web platform is the world’s largest digital database of 3D insect data. It is the result of an international and interdisciplinary cooperation initiated by Karlsruhe Institute of ...

A nearly complete 90-million-year-old dinosaur fossil from Patagonia, Alnashetri, reveals how alvarezsaurs evolved and shrank over time.

Tobacco hornworm caterpillars have no organs that resemble ears. Yet, scientists were able to figure out how they hear—and it could inspire next generation microphones. To understand hearing in the ...

Researchers at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, together with data scientists, have developed a new method to largely automate the extraction of label information from digitized insect specimens. The ...