For more than 40 years, researchers suspected this species might operate in such an extreme way, but they couldn’t prove it. Now, a new study confirms it. This is the first known ant species made up ...

The Amazon rainforest is often associated with jaguars, parrots, and towering trees. Yet the majority of animal life in this ...

Most gardeners reach for the spray bottle the moment they spot a pest. But that reflex may be doing more harm than good, ...

Here’s how to control the flea population in your yard.

To mark 20 years of the BBC TV series Planet Earth, we look at some of the filming firsts it captured – including a ‘zombie’ fungus ...

Here is spring, and it feels great. The wildflowers are here. Winter deciduous trees and shrubs are blooming and leafing out.

In fact, the first robin I had seen this year. My first thought was “Yikes! That can’t be good. What a bad omen.” Although I have grown up around robins, I had never seen one this close and still ...