The Formosan super termite has been invading the United States since World War II, and it's diet makes it even more ...

Over recent years, the chewy rice cakes have killed and hospitalized hundreds of people in Japan, where it is eaten to ...

On night walks through Highgate Wood, Cindy Blaney shares the whirling wonder of the often-maligned mammals with the humans ...

Following the European Union's ban on harmful pesticides, a recent study has shown that bird populations are slowly ...

Scientists are raising concerns about free-living amoebae, resilient microbes that can survive in water systems and enable ...

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Humans are far more monogamous than our primate cousins, but less so than beavers, a new study suggests. Researchers from the University of Cambridge in England analyzed the proportion of full ...

Eating a blend of non-toxic corn and genetically modified toxic corn can result in corn earworm pests (Helicoverpa zea) developing longer, more narrow and more tapered wings – shaped like the wings of ...

Humans have been eating insects for millennia, but despite the uncomfortable feelings a bug-based diet might evoke in cultures not used to their consumption, they could form a vital part of future ...

A species of bear that lives in China, almost all of the giant panda’s close relatives are meat-eaters. A few million years ago, giant pandas were too. For some reason that we are still unsure of, ...