Female bees and wasps are the real defenders. Only females can sting, because stingers are modified egg-laying organs. Males do nothing in defence. Females guard nests, food, and colonies with extreme ...

The road that leads to Emerald Forest Reserve does not inspire hope. For kilometre after kilometre, the landscape unfolds in ...

What's been increasingly apparent to despairing Tottenham fans for some months is now suddenly clear for everyone: their team ...

These unusual Florida museums feature shipwreck treasure, cryptids, oddities, and exhibits so strange you will not believe ...

The Everglades seldom benefit from invasive species. But now, as non-native apple snails disappear, the endangered Everglades bird, the snail kite, is paying the price.

Snakes vary in size, from the tiny size of the Barbados thread snake to the massive reticulated python. Sizes also vary ...

This is the bizarre moment a group of fishermen on a boat off the coast of Pattaya, Thailand on February 16 find a ...

The human genome is a rich, complex record of migration, encounters, and inheritance written over thousands of millennia. Genomic research by members of Sarah Tishkoff's lab at the University of ...

The new generation of “miniforests” pop up everywhere from schoolyards to urban parks to parking lots. Typically ranging from ...

Florida residents are no strangers to invasive reptiles. But this 6-foot-long African lizard poses an especially big threat.

Genes are short sections of DNA that determine an animal’s traits—everything from coat color and claw strength to body shape ...