The spiny leaf insect mother not only abandons her eggs, she's also figured out how to trick someone else into protecting and ...

The executive director of Joint Animal Services said the organization spoke about the changes at the council meeting.

From bold foxes to gregarious birds, animals’ personalities are increasingly being seen as crucial to conservation efforts.

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Spider webs are nature’s perfect traps: sticky and delicate, yet strong enough to catch insects many times larger than the ...

From sticky “flypaper” to lightning-fast suction, carnivorous plants have evolved various ingenious traps for finding the ...

A bacterial cell settles onto a nondescript surface. It is plump, healthy and functioning as it should. Nothing appears amiss ...

Learn how surface tension enables water striders to skate, and how nature’s tiny engineering marvels inspire robotics.

An added boost for mowers in winter Your mowers and weed trimmers most likely spend winter in an outside building exposed to freezing temperatures. A great idea all during the winter is to start the ...

Twenty five years ago, ecologist Donna Mullen bought a farm on the Meath/Cavan border with the intention of converting it ...

Everyone loves a bargain, but gardeners are an especially resourceful bunch. Reuse odds and ends with these recycled garden ...

Many stories are forgotten because they’re overshadowed by others or are simply silenced due to their sensitive or controversial content. But as Sue Monk Kidd, the author of The Secret Life of Bees, ...