The facility, now located at the Northern Botanical Garden in Río Piedras, houses more than 52,000 specimens of high ...

The words “pollination” and “flower” may seem inseparable, but plants began courting insects millions of years before they ...

Female praying mantises are notorious for eating their mates during or after sex. Now, scientists have discovered a dwarf ...

Harvard researchers have discovered that cycads—one of the oldest living lineages of seed plants—heat up their reproductive ...

In a Caribbean cave, researchers discovered hundreds of fossils with bee nests within them. It is the first time this behavior has been recorded, a new study finds.

Most of us have the same instant reaction when we spot a creepy crawler making its way across our living room floor. We reach ...

An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. Chris ...

An outbreak of infant botulism tied to ByHeart baby formula has been expanded to include any illnesses reported since the ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Christopher C. Grinter has spent much of his life surrounded by insects, though not in the way most people imagine. As Senior Collection Manager of ...

Invertebrates dominate the animal kingdom, making up 97 percent of all creatures. These animals, lacking a backbone, display ...

Deception is everywhere in nature. Animals and plants routinely cheat, lie and manipulate for their own benefit. One example is mimicry, where one species (the mimic) has evolved to resemble another ...

In the summer, insects are everywhere. In Arizona, we often hear the buzzing of cicadas or catch glimpses of giant mesquite bugs on the trees in our backyards. But when temperatures drop, even insects ...