According to a new study by researchers from Greifswald and Canada, black widows (Latrodectus hesperus) use a unique scent strategy to find their mate. A chemical pheromone slowly decomposes on the ...

By 1914, they were extinct, due in part to one of the founders of Cincinnati’s Museum of Natural History. For more than a century, the Cincinnati Museum of Natural History was the fiefdom of the Dury ...

Few creatures fill people with as much as dread and fear as spiders and snakes. In fact, many people develop an extreme, overwhelming fear of spiders (arachnophobia) or snakes (ophidiophobia), and ...

Ecuador’s Amazon region has revealed insects and spider webs trapped in amber that dates back 112 million years. The findings, published in the journalNature Communications Earth & Environment, ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers discovered an extreme version of "little red dots" dubbed "The Cliff." Its light suggests that it could be a never-before-seen class of objects called ...