Piping plover parents have their work cut out for them with these precocious chicks. Ready to roam the beach just hours after ...

They are the smallest animals.But they are essential to the health of our planet.We find them under the soil, hidden in plant ...

Just before the spring equinox, a friend and I went out on the Fish Creek Trail one morning on a low tide. We saw five or six ...

A newly identified parasitic wasp that buzzed and flew among dinosaurs 99 million years ago evolved a bizarre mechanism, ...

Saya Novinger took this photo of a Western Eyed Sphinx Moth as it rested on ivy growing on the side of a fence.

For the past 17 years, they've been underground, never moving more than 3 feet, sipping tree root sap and excavating tunnels ...

Besides plants and flowers, a dinosaur tail, a crab, a hell ant, a spider ... their eggs in the nest of another wasp species, and the larvae feast on their new hosts’ young once they hatch.

Conventional wisdom is that if you cultivate host plants, butterflies will come. Take, for example, milkweed. After declining monarch populations began making headlines in the late 1990s, people ...

Why are customs agents concerned about eggs being brought into the country? Here's a look at the issue and why it's dangerous ...

As she continued peeling, she realized it was no ordinary egg—it was one of the hatching eggs that had fallen from under the hen. "I didn't know what to do," she said in the caption of the video, ...