Cirque du Soleil’s show “Ovo,” Portuguese for “egg,” brings to life a colorful ecosystem teeming with insects.

Experts from the University of Kentucky have found evidence of microplastics in the bodies of an insect in Antarctica. In the ...

"It almost looked like the moose had two [additional] eyes," Laurence Clarfeld, an environmental researcher at the University ...

The Natural History Museum of Denmark houses a unique collection of 70,000 pieces of amber from various time periods.

A Peruvian scientist and her team are working together to make sure stingless bees are around for generations to come by ...

Authors of a new study are calling for stronger protection of insects in wildlife law, after the conviction of four men in Kenya for smuggling rare ants out of the country highlighted the need for ...

Two new frog species have recently been discovered on the small, boulder-studded Dauan Island off Queensland. The frogs have been named for their granite boulder habitat: Choerophyrne koeypad (“rocky ...

The illegal trade in rare insects is booming across Africa, Asia and Latin America. Exotic ants, spiders and beetles are collected and sold as pets. Some species are worth a fortune on the global ...

Two Miami Blue butterflies released at Long Key State Park in 2018 in an effort to help establish new breeding areas for the rare insects. Jose A. Iglesias [email protected] From the Miami ...

A 130-foot-tall former gas tank in a southern German city is just about the last place you’d expect to see a big collection of rare insects and Amazonian art. But the Gasometer in Pforzheim is indeed ...