Carnivorous pitcher plants attract ants with their sweet but toxic nectar, turning its flowers into a deadly trap.

Some wasps are unsettling, and then there are species so extreme that even the scientists who study them reach for words like ...

Summer is the season for flies, which belong to an insect group that scientists call Diptera. Many fly species are more ...

Over the past half century, researchers have established that birds evolved from dinosaurs: specifically, the theropods, the ...

Songbirds on the UCLA campus changed beak shapes during the pandemic, according to a new study. Researchers suspect it might ...

Scientists already knew that the pair of shallow coastal ocean dwellers keep very different schedules of downtime: The ...

The origin of eukaryotes traced from Asgard archaea, revealing how complex cells evolved and led to animals, plants and ...

Spruce bark beetles hijack their host tree’s chemical defenses, transforming them into potent weapons against fungal threats.

Inspection of incoming plants by the Hawaii Department of Agriculture and USDA, plus support of the University of Hawaii College of Tropical and the Hawaii Landscape Industry, we have avoided many ...

Ants and bees did not dominate the planet through strength or intelligence alone. Instead, they evolved extreme cooperation systems that shifted survival away from individuals and toward the group.