Just over half a billion years ago, Earth was rocked by a global mass extinction event, a dramatic interruption of the ...

William J. Baerg was a naturalist, entomologist and teacher who served as head of the Department of Entomology at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville for 31 years. His research on black widow ...

There was something that was as high as a pole with eight metres before the trees overthrew it. The fossils of what long has been considered a giant ancient fungus, the Prototaxites, have been ...

When you’re watching for this songbird, look out below. The Eastern towhee spends most of its time on the ground, whether ...

When a graduate found a baby Florida scrub millipede, she put it in a kiddie pool. Then it got busy reproducing.

After being disappointed by Warhammer 40k Darktide's Hive Scum character last year, developer Fatshark has given me a fresh ...

In the realm of marine biogeography, there is a widely held scientific principle: the Atlantic and Indo-Pacific oceans are ...

In hydrothermal vent fields, a small snail evolved an iron-reinforced shell. Here’s how it challenges assumptions about ...

Types of shotguns are classified by their action, which is their operating system, so to speak, and by their gauge, an archaic measure of caliber. Each action type and gauge has its advantages and ...

A healthy 8-year-old boy presented to our dermatology clinic with a 4-week history of worsening movement limitation and pain due to skin retraction of the right axilla. There were no constitutional ...

When pill bugs roll into a tiny ball, the act looks far simpler than it actually is. Known as conglobation, a pill bugs’ ...

For over 200 years, there has been just one species of giraffe, Giraffa camelopardalis. This unmistakable African animal is ...