A study of a fossilized pterosaur from China has confirmed that some of these prehistoric creatures had a surprisingly varied ...

Mammals have developed some unusual eating habits over the past 100 million years, but a new study has uncovered the ...

A 259-million-year-old fossil skull of Yinshanosaurus angustus has been found, filling a key evolutionary gap in ...

People held at the brand new Florida immigration detention center that officials have dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” say worms ...

During the Permian period, approximately 250 million years ago, stick insects like Cretophasmomima reached truly impressive proportions. With body lengths exceeding 16 inches (40 cm) and substantial ...

Long before T. rex, the Earth was dominated by super-carnivores stranger and more terrifying than anything dreamed up by ...

Insects are vanishing from pristine rainforests. “Around the world many insect populations are crashing.” (Natural History Museum, April 2025) Insects are ...

Insects are small but have a huge impact. Insects represent more than half of all wild species on the planet, with more than a million described species. Their variety amazes some people and disgusts ...

Warm Waters Helped Some Species Thrive After Earth’s Great Dying Learn about the climate changes that followed the end-Permian extinction, allowing select species to take over the planet’s oceans.

The insects are hibernating. Scientists call this a “diapause” and it is how insects, which in most cases cannot generate their own heat like we mammals can, survive the cold winter months.