Often feared, but fascinating up close — the European hornet calmly drinks sweet oak sap. Discover this peaceful side of a powerful forest insect, captured in detail among bark and sunlight.

An ant and fly from the Cretaceous period offer insights into the history of Ophiocordyceps, the fungal parasite made popular ...

A Post Office manager claims he was left traumatised after biting into a Tesco sandwich and finding a live cockroach ...

Sim RimWorld The new Rimworld expansion adds therapy pandas, tameable insect hive queens, nanotech-enhanced alligators, prehistoric beasts, giant toads, flamingos, and something called a 'bog ...

Two bits of amber discovered in a lab basement hold ancient evidence of a fungi famous for controlling the minds of its victims.

Reading is now a cool and flexible statement, embraced by celebrities and everyday commuters alike. Whether it's for social ...

Long before humans walked the Earth, while dinosaurs were still roaming the land, a parasitic fungus hijacked the mind of a ...

Zombie fungi were already controlling insects 100 million years ago, according to a recent study of fossils trapped in ...

An astonishing, 47 million-year-old find: scientists in Germany have uncovered and identified the fossil of a true cicada. It ...

Chinese Academy of Sciences researchers report that fossilized entomopathogenic fungi from mid-Cretaceous amber reveal some of the oldest direct evidence of parasitic relationships between fungi ...

Eoplatypleura messelensis is the oldest known true cicada ever identified in Europe. For the first time, a fossilized true cicada has been identified from the Messel Pit deposits. Eoplatypleura messel ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Powell Gardens’ beloved summer celebration, Festival of Butterflies, returns next week. From July 17 ...