Here are five fascinating animals that die after giving birth. Pacific salmon, including species like the Chinook and Sockeye ...

For some animals, reproduction comes at the ultimate cost—their own lives. While this may seem extreme, it’s a natural ...

But nature loves to break rules. Some animals only do these things for part of their life -- like mayflies that feast as larvae, but lack mouths and guts as adults! And even some non-animals have ...

Mayflies don’t waste time ... This is part of a reproductive strategy called semelparity, where an animal reproduces once and dies soon after. The path to reproduction for an eel is a marathon.

When the fly is up in Ireland, all the fishermen in Ireland rush to catch them with a technique called dapping.

Spider webs combine complex principles of physics and chemistry to create one of the world's most remarkable substances. We explain how.

Hudson Valley Shakespeare, Processional Arts Workshop, and Hudson Highlands Land Trust will host the fourth annual Highland ...

Purple martins are returning from South America. The first "scouts" have been spotted in Michigan. What to know.

Most animals living on the river bottom in the Kuparuk are insect larvae (the aquatic stages of flying insects such as mosquitoes and black flies which are abundant in Alaska). The ecologists focused ...