Giving children antibiotics unnecessarily (like for viral infections such as colds) or not completing the prescribed dose can lead to antibiotic resistance and damage gut flora. A disrupted gut ...

Some woods simply aren't meant for grilling and smoking. We round up some toxic and unsafe woods to watch out for, as well as ...

Some bugs sting, bite, or even carry disease. Learn to recognize dangerous and poisonous bugs and how to keep yourself and your family safe.

Research shows that insect accumulation on an aircraft’s laminar flow area and increase fuel consumption by 1.1% to 4.4% ...

Fireflies (or lightning bugs) perform their light show almost every night over the summer. What to know about the popular ...

Also called the pintail beetle, this creature is renowned for its tumbling, flipping, turning and jumping motions when it is ...

If you’ve played the video game “The Last of Us” or seen the television adaption, then you’ve heard of cordyceps — a “zombie” fungus that infects its host and takes over its body. This leads to the ...

A professor of entomology who does work in Alaska reported the possibility that more than 12 million adult mosquitoes may ...

Special intestinal cells collect excess minerals into particles the snakes can poop out, according to a new study ...

Most people are familiar with the dangerous snakes and spiders in Delaware. But there are other critters to worry about.

The cells helps the snakes absorb the bones of their prey — and might show up in other animals that chomp their meals whole.

A first-of-its-kind study traces the rise of ant- and termite-eaters, revealing how mammals returned to the evolutionary table — at least a dozen times — to hone traits for feasting on the social ...