The Hercules beetle (Dynastes hercules) is a living tank—one of the strongest, heaviest, and largest insects on the planet. In this video, we build the ultimate rainforest habitat to match its epic ...

A new study published in the journal Soil Ecology Letters, shows the importance of old termite mounds as habitats for a wide ...

In the Costa Rican rainforest ecologists now find emaciated dead bats and the flowers they suck for nectar no longer bloom. When Costa Rica was hit by pesticides, insects were completely wiped out.

While plants often have mutually beneficial relationships with insects, a tuber in Fiji grows separate compartments for ...

Squamellaria plants grow special structures to host the ants they symbiotically rely on for nutrients. Distinct compartments ...

One bird spectacle readily observable in Allegheny County right now comes in the form of 100 purple martins swirling above ...

A new study by Dr Tom M. Fayle of Queen Mary University of London, Dr Kalsum M. Yusah of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and Dr Jiri Tuma of the ...

When insects are killed or die off, everything in the food web is affected, from the birds, bats and lizards that feed on insects to the snakes, coyotes and cougars that feed on birds and lizards, and ...

From pollinating plants to dispersing seeds, birds play a variety of crucial roles that help to keep ecosystems in balance.

If we continue to plants seeds, literally and metaphorically, and encourage others to join us, we can grow a movement, ...

This massive achievement secures protection and sends a signal to the world that protecting nature is happening ...