Researchers ventured into the Nullarbor cave system, Australia, and found a treasure house of fossils, hundreds in number and ...

This rare trait may allow the rainforest-dwelling species to move sideways instead of just forward, according to researchers.

Researchers exploring caves in Australia’s Nullarbor Plain have found mummified, eyeless invertebrates, including spiders, ...

Six students from across the county learned all they could about caves and what dwells within them during a cave camp Tuesday at Cook Museum of Natural Science in Decatur. The one-day camp was ...

Most insects do smell, and they produce scents for a variety of reasons. One is self-defense, says Jason Dombroskie, an entomologist at Cornell University in New York.

Bogong moths use both Earth's magnetic field and the starry night sky to make twice-yearly migrations spanning hundreds of ...

It's a warm January summer afternoon, and as I traverse the flower-strewn western slopes of Australia's highest mountain, ...

If you think eating insects is gross, you may be in the cultural minority. Throughout history, people have relished insects as food. Today, many cultures still do. Ten thousand years ago hunters ...

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

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.

The community, it seems, buried the manuscripts to protect them from an attack by the Roman army in A.D. 68 that levelled the town. The discovery of a twelfth cave in 2017 has renewed interest in the ...