Standing in a tropical forest at night, you might hear what sounds like a small bird calling from high in the canopy. Listen ...

Over 300 million years ago, before the age of giant dinosaurs, Earth was covered with giant insects. Why were insects so enormous during this time? What did oxygen have to do with it? And why did ...

The giant water bug is a predatory insect that hunts aquatic creatures. This bug has sharp mouthparts that deliver a painful bite to prey and humans. Many people call the giant water bug a “toe biter” ...

When dinosaurs thundered across the land, a giant, cicada-like bug called Palaeontinidae flew in the sky and fed on tree sap. But something disturbed its peaceful existence — and triggered the ...

Invasive, aggressive and destructive, the yellow-legged Asian hornet (Vespa velutina) is on the rise in the UK. Asian hornets are an invasive species that poses a threat to biodiversity, preying on ...

Michael Skvarla stopped at the store to purchase some milk in 2012 when he saw the bug on the side of the building A giant insect that hasn't been seen in North America in several decades turned up at ...

Matthew Gimmel, curator of entomology at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History recently published the discovery of expanded migration of the giant swallowtail butterfly and the giant sphinx moth ...

A stroll through an Arkansas Walmart on the hunt for milk turned up a giant discovery that a man will never soon forget – a Jurassic-era insect thought to have disappeared from eastern North America.

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Central Station - Sofia is transformed into a soaring, buzzing microcosm, thanks to  the official opening of the world-famous ...