It was huge. Its light brown shell stood taller than the tip of my shoe. Its yellowish-green body stretched about an inch ...

By studying the natural world, scientists find blueprints for innovations that can improve human lives—in the genes of a ...

The Christmas Island shrew, a species of cone snail (Conus lugubris), the slender-billed curlew, and three Australian mammals ...

Diatomaceous earth is a white powder made from crushed ancient diatom fossils. Its sharp edges damage insect bodies, making ...

A volunteer-led Stream Team is using kits to test their local waterways quarterly for phosphorus, ammonia and nitrogen, and survey for small aquatic species, such as clams, snails and insect larvae.

Heating means pests breeding and spreading faster, warn scientists, with simplified current food system already vulnerable ...

From movement to mating signals, slug slime plays a vital role in survival and explains those silvery garden trails.

From tiger recoveries and chimpanzee genetics to AI conservation tools, this accessible overview includes exciting research ...

About 20,000 years ago, a family of owls lived in a cave. Sometimes, they would cough up owl pellets containing the bones of their prey, which landed on the cave floor. And, researchers have just ...

Your moth orchid’s leaves have been eaten by snails and slugs, which are mostly nocturnal and active during the wet season. You may want to hang your plant or mount it in such a way that the pests ...

Exiling your tree to the kerb is heartbreaking, but it doesn't have to be so. In fact, there is something much more useful to ...

Fossils from a Caribbean cave reveal bees once nested inside animal bones, offering rare insight into ancient insect behavior ...