Sealed off from the outside world for about 5.5 million years, it has remained one of nature’s greatest mysteries. The cave ...

"We know that daytime migratory insects use the sun, so testing the starry sky seemed an obvious thing to try." ...

In a study published in the scientific journal Nature, researchers found the bogong moths use the starry sky as a guide to ...

Billions of nocturnal Bogong moths migrate up to 1,000 km to cool caves in the Australian Alps that they have never ...

How a discarded bag of Cheetos is threatening a cave’s delicate ecosystem, home to bats and insects. Staff at Caverns National Park in New Mexico scorned the unknown visitor and warned how the ...

An eyeless wasp is just one of several new cave-dwelling invertebrates discovered within the proposed boundary of a massive ...

Ancient fragments of fabric colored with red dye were found in a desert cave, and they serve as evidence of the oldest known piece of fabric made with insect dye. They date back about 4,000 years ...

The rare 3,800-year-old textile fragments that were dyed with insects of the species Kermes vermilio in antiquity. The fragments were found in 2016 in the Cave of Skulls in the Judaean Desert.

Billions of nocturnal Bogong moths migrate up to 1,000 km to cool caves in the Australian Alps that they have never previously visited. New research shows how they may find their way there and back.