An entomologist at Anglia Ruskin University has discovered seven new species of leafhopper. A researcher at Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) in Cambridge, England has identified seven previously unknown ...

December is the coldest month of the year in our area, but there are a few activities that will get you out in the garden this month. Maybe taking a ...

While modern octopuses have DNA that consistently gets reshuffled, resulting in some chromosomal mixing, the researchers ...

In its native Mexico, the cup-and-saucer vine (Cobaea scandens), also known as cathedral bells or Mexican ivy, is a perennial. Here, the climbing plant is usually cultivated as an annual. Its ...

In 2000, three men became real-life castaways when stranded on a deserted island after their fishing charter ran aground.

That’s exactly what happened to an unfortunate graduate student named Donald R. Currey back in the summer of 1964, who ended ...

Wood ducks thrive on a flexible diet of acorns, plants, and insects, helping them recover across North America.

Ever wonder why pests keep showing up in your garden, even when you think you’ve done everything right? Sometimes, the ...

The fish and rare mussels hiding in the Spring River that flows through Kansas and Missouri are signs that environmental ...

Sure, we were only 10 days into 2025, but just listen to Lambrini Girls’ blistering, relentlessly fun, thorny, in-your-face ...

Even for the most ardent nature fan, it is all too easy to overlook slugs. Not only are they small, on the ground, and well, ...

Every five years, a small group of biologists and environmentalists assemble in a large corner office in Springfield with long glass windows. Inside that room, they weigh in on the fate of every ...