Researchers at the University of Memphis used a free app to rediscover a species of beetle that was thought to be extinct.

Scientists are discovering and naming new species at record-breaking speeds, shattering long-held assumptions that the golden age of biodiversity discovery peaked more than a century ago. A ...

As if the largest bug to ever live — a monster nearly 9 feet long with several dozen legs — wasn’t terrifying enough, scientists could only just imagine what the extinct beast’s head looked like. That ...

Thanks to a pair of scientists at the University of Memphis, biology professor Dr. Duane McKenna and doctoral student Michael Charles (pictured), we now know the greater chestnut weevil still lives.

Over 300 million years ago, before the age of giant dinosaurs, Earth was covered with giant insects. Why were insects so enormous during this time? What did oxygen have to do with it? And why did ...

Scientists have discovered that the Antarctic midge, Antarctica's only native insect, is ingesting microplastics, highlighting the pervasive reach of pollution even into the planet's most remote ...

SAN DIEGO — In a huge win for wildlife, the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance has added its first-ever insect to their Frozen Zoo. There are over 11 thousand cell lines, representing more than 1,300 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. The Lord Howe stick insect (Dryococelus australis) was ...

Due to humanity’s drive for development and growth, we have lost a considerable number of species. One such species is the Xerces Blue butterfly. This butterfly went extinct in the early 1940s and is ...

INJURY ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK STATE TEAM. THE 160,000 ACRES OF BERNHEIM FOREST AND ARBORETUM ARE HOME TO COUNTLESS PLANTS AND ANIMALS, AND AS OUR SAM CARTER DISCOVERED, THE FOREST NOW HAS AN EXPANDED ...