Ancient evidence reveals that humans have eaten insects for thousands of years, challenging Western attitudes about what ...

Researchers have brought back the calls of insects that lived 165 million years ago, working from fossilized wing fragments found in China. One of them called at frequencies beyond human hearing, ...

Scientists say we’re facing an “insect apocalypse” as a growing body of research shows drastic declines in their numbers around the world. One of the first warning signs came from a study published in ...

Panchase Protected Forest, in the hills above Nepal’s second city of Pokhara, is known among botanists as an orchid haven. Hundreds of species grow there, many of them found nowhere else in Nepal. I ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. “We have to get used to the idea of eating insects.” This proclamation came from, of ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Pharmaceuticals have a wide range of detrimental side effects on people. Scientists also know that pharmaceutical pollution is widespread in ...

Insects make up to 90% of all animal species on the planet, and most of them can be found in the tropics, the regions around the equator. Yet we still know surprisingly little about how these species ...

Meet the earliest known insects. Shaking hands with them will take a while. By Kate Golembiewski Erik Tihelka’s first glimpse of one of the world’s oldest insects came from an outdated Russian ...

Lobster had one of the greatest reputation makeovers in food history. Once treated as "food for the poor," it is now served in expensive restaurants, dipped in butter and presented as a delicacy. In ...