Antlion larvae may not look like much, but they are easily some of the best engineers in the animal kingdom. This insect's ...

Around half a billion years ago, in what is now the Yunnan Province of China, a tiny larva was trapped in mud. Hundreds of millions of years later, after the mud had long since become the black shales ...

Animals such as the orchid mantis mimic the look of flowers, and the corpse flower emits a smell like rotting meat to attract insects, but these beetles add a new strategy to the mimicry playbook, ...

While it may be an unfamiliar sensation to humans, electroreception is relatively commonplace in the animal kingdom. Sharks, bees and even the platypus all share this ability to detect electric fields ...

Like wily perfumers, a parasitic beetle’s larvae create floral aromas to lure in bees. Plants are known to cosplay as animals, but this rare discovery could be the first known example of an animal ...