Eles ajudam a explicar a crise climática, valorizar a biodiversidade e despertar nas crianças o desejo de cuidar do mundo ...

Um estudo científico registrou pela primeira vez uma larva do peixe-leão invasor na Plataforma Continental do Amazonas. O achado indica que a espécie já está se reproduzindo na região, derrubando a ...

Shane Turton and Charli Whitaker, from South Australia's Riverland, have started a side hustle farming black soldier fly larvae in their backyard. The small operation is reducing food waste from local ...

A mass of writhing maggots on a decomposing murder victim is not a sight for the squeamish, but for some, it is evidence. A maggot’s age and species can give essential information to forensic ...

Being right- or left-handed is a familiar fact about yourself you likely don’t think about much on a day-to-day basis. However, your handedness affects how you interact with the world. For many people ...

People and animals create lots of waste that is usually sent to landfills, incinerated or stored in engineered ponds such as manure lagoons. Now, researchers publishing in ACS’ Environmental Science & ...

The deep sea is cold, dark and under immense pressure. Yet life has found a way to prevail there, in the form of some of Earth’s strangest creatures. Since deep-sea critters have adapted to near ...

Like wily perfumers, a parasitic beetle’s larvae create floral aromas to lure in bees. Plants are known to cosplay as animals, but this rare discovery could be the first known example of an animal ...

The animal kingdom can be even stranger than fiction. Case in point: a larva that looks more like it was made-for-TV than anything you might stumble upon in real life. Instagram account ...

Invasive zebra mussel larvae have been confirmed in Tanners Lake in Landfall. Officials with the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources said Thursday that a recent DNR analysis of water samples ...

The ability of some animals to dynamically change color to match the brightness of their surroundings is one of nature's great survival tools, allowing flatfish to blend into sandy seabeds, frogs to ...

Laura holds a Master's in Experimental Neuroscience and a Bachelor's in Biology from Imperial College London. Her areas of expertise include health, medicine, psychology, and neuroscience. Laura holds ...