Explore how carabid beetles can serve as effective bioindicators for tracking soil microplastics in terrestrial ecosystems.

The Waukesha Biota was the center for massive paleontological information, and new revelations found the origin of a ...

According to Canadian earthworm taxonomist John Warren Reynolds, there are 161 earthworm species at present in the United ...

Imagine you are a kind of fish called a goby, part of a huge family of more than 2,000 species. Maybe you're of average size ...

New Zealand’s ancient bowerbird was smaller and more slender than the species living in Australia and New Guinea today.

Like humans, insects possess sensory organs responsible for vision, hearing, smell, taste, and touch. For vision, insects ...

PORTLAND, Maine — One of the rarest whales on the planet has continued an encouraging trend of population growth in the wake ...

What are some animals that give birth to huge numbers of offspring at once?” (Watch a female sea urchin produce millions of eggs.) The mola, or ocean sunfish, looks like an animal cracker someone bit ...

Researchers often rely on fossil teeth for clues about what extinct animals ate. Giant ground sloths’ teeth have been tricky to analyze, though – until now.

Several hominid species were consistently exposed to lead for almost two million years, which may have given modern humans a ...

Iceland’s frozen, inhospitable winters have long protected it from mosquitoes, but that may be changing. This week, scientists announced the discovery of three mosquitoes — marking the country’s first ...

Lead poisoning isn’t just an industrial-age problem. A new study reveals our ancestors, including Neanderthals, were exposed ...