Meet the black soldier fly larvae, a tiny waste-eating bug that creates a fantastic organic fertilizer that can improve soil ...

Butterflies and moths look alike and are in the same family, Lepidoptera. Their life cycles start with eggs that hatch to ...

University of Queensland researchers have for the first time introduced genetic material into plants via their roots, opening ...

Scientists have for the first time demonstrated play-like behavior in flies. They found that fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster) voluntarily and repeatedly visited a carousel.

Researchers at the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna are reporting that Goffin's cockatoos (Cacatua goffiniana) engage ...

The observed behavior suggests advanced cognitive abilities in Goffin’s cockatoos. Previous research has shown that these birds exhibit tool use, problem-solving, and even sequential reasoning, ...

Global warming is producing a rapid loss of plant species -- according to estimates, roughly 600 plant species have died out since 1750 -- twice the number of animal species lost. But which species ...

“I need to hunt and fish. My body doesn’t want to eat just these plants.” The Tsimane of Bolivia get most of their food from the river, the forest, or fields and gardens carved out of the fores ...