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Darwin's bark spiders spin immensely tough silk into enormous webs across rivers and small lakes in Madagascar. Matjaž Gregorič at the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Ljubljana and his ...

From polygamous tree toads to heavy stick bugs, this year’s extensive new species discoveries are changing the way we see our ...

Adrift in the wind, the protagonists of Japanese director Momoko Seto’s French-produced 3D animated curio “Dandelion’s ...

The BBC catches a man trapping songbirds - selling them is a profitable business because many keep them as pets.

Robins are a familiar sight in British winters, staying active when other birds hide. But while we like tidy borders, robins ...

In rural Prentiss County, on a triangle of land cornered between a stretch of U.S. 45 and Twenty Mile Creek, Joanna Byrd ...

Want to inspire the next generation of scientists? Here are the best books recommended by experts in ecology, biology, entomology and other fields.

I was home, sick, and I had gotten up at about 7 a.m., which is late for me. Feeling somewhat dejected, I was sitting at the ...

It’s a silent-winged animal that has historically used sound to hunt given its nocturnal existence. But new evidence has ...

Marta Gouger (our Times News editor) gave me a shot at writing this column, I had no idea it would be continuing this long.