The March school holidays are here and, yes, it is only a week long. But that is still plenty of time to prise the kids away from their screens and point them towards something worth getting excited ...

Nocturnal insects may use both the Earth’s magnetic field and visual cues to guide their migratory flight behaviours, according to recent findings.

Platypuses are weird looking. They look like someone stitched together a duck and a beaver—flat bill, webbed feet, and a ...

New research reveals how the invasive fall armyworm uses a combination of the Earth's magnetic field and visual cues to navigate during night-time migration.

Scattered across our planet's vast oceans lie forgotten fragments of land, each harboring secrets that time has tried to ...

New research found that mosquitoes are becoming increasingly attracted to humans, and scientists say that we, the humans, are to blame for this. The research, published in Frontiers in Ecology and ...

Close-up of Pseudoproscopia latirostris, a unique grasshopper species with an elongated head. Native to South America, it uses its distinctive shape as camouflage in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. University of Queensland researchers studied peptides in the bodies of these wasps. Source: Dr Sam Robinson Scientists studying ...

Invasive alien species don’t only drive out other native species, they also dramatically transform soils, water and ecosystems. A new assessment tool aims to pinpoint the negative environmental ...

Michele joined KCAL9 in 1990 as the Orange County reporter and she has loved it there ever since! She reports from the field for both KCAL9 and CBS2. The warm weather following Southern California's ...

Derek Mooney and his Mooney Goes Wild team of experts are bringing you Nature Nights LIVE, a celebration of Ireland's rich flora and fauna with a special emphasis on nocturnal wildlife. This year, we ...