The fen raft spider, one of the largest spiders in the United Kingdom, is making a strong comeback after nearly disappearing. Today, thousands are back in the wild thanks to a long-running breeding ...

What's that hopping around? Arizona is seeing a lot of grasshoppers this spring. Here's why they are out early and in such alarming numbers this year.

We tend to picture female animals as gentle or secondary to the males. Nature tells a different story. In many species, females are the hunters, the leaders, and sometimes the most ruthless ones in ...

The results of the Vineyard’s Least Conspicuous Songbird Contest are in, and they’re unanimous: The brown creeper, Certhia ...

New science is showing that nature’s vital pollinators are smarter than we ever imagined. Here’s why that discovery should ...

Ryan Gosling as the reluctant hero in Project Hail Mary. Credit: Jonathan Olley/Amazon MGM Studios Project Hail Mary, a new science fiction film starring Ryan Gosling and based on the eponymous book ...

They’re hiding under your garden beds and irrigation boxes — and they’re actually helping you. Meet Yakima Valley’s long-toed ...

A new batch of giant flying spiders is preparing to hatch and experts have suggested that they may travel across most of the eastern US by the fall.

Whether they're offering gifts, courting for weeks or dying during sex, these are the romantic animal species doing courtship ...

A newly discovered group of tarantulas is so bizarre that scientists had to invent a whole new genus—Satyrex—to describe them ...

The Joro is native to East Asia and was first sighted in northeast Georgia in 2014. Since then, the Joro has spread to the ...

Explosive breeding brings frogs and salamanders together in vernal pools for a brief, frantic window. Learn how it works.