We can call this newly discovered spider another brick—or web—in the wall. Scientists in Colombia named the new species ...

What do bats do at night when they're not hunting? Using tiny GPS trackers, Leiden researchers discovered that pond bats ...

Rhododendrons are not only the state flower for our Washingtonian homeland, but they are perhaps the most widely planted shrub in our region. Now that we are in the heart of springtime in the PNW, ...

This father and son fishing trip is their first camp out together. It turns into one neither will ever forget — for more reasons than one.

Mark Moffett, a research associate at the National Museum of Natural History, specializes in capturing the often-overlooked ...

This tiny frog in the world lives in the leaf litter of Papua New Guinea's rainforests and can jump over 30 times its body ...

Animal life began in aquatic environments more than 600 million years ago. Around 500 million years ago, during the Cambrian ...

Three-hundred-million years ago, Earth was very different. The continents had coalesced into Pangea, which was dominated in its equatorial regions by vast coal-swamp forests. With high atmospheric ...

DENVER — For these insects, flight is all in the legs. Phantom crane flies float lazily on breezes, their six long legs splayed and wings held utterly still. Wind tunnel experiments are beginning to ...

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My pre-K students always jump at the opportunity to explore nature, and they also love digging into bugs. I previously assumed that lessons about insects were only possible in the springtime, but that ...