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Even Antarctica’s toughest native insect can’t escape the reach of plastic pollution. Scientists have discovered that Belgica ...

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On a remote volcanic outcrop in the Sou Pacifi, a giant, carnivorous centipede is quietly rewriting what we think we know ...

A snatch of song, a flash of movement, the twitch of a tail: Birds bring life and charm to the garden all year long, if you make it a welcoming place. “Some gardens are more bird-friendly than others, ...

The way food-chains usually work is that small things get eaten by bigger things, which in turn get eaten by even bigger things. But it’s not always that simple, says Stuart Blackman. A review back in ...

Nearly a dozen American White Pelicans crowded the gate of their enclosure at Iowa Bird Rehabilitation as employee Carter Whalen approached. He dumped handfuls of dead, finger-sized fish into tubs of ...

A common nighthawk perches on a log in a soft crate at Iowa Bird Rehabilitation in Des Moines. A nonprofit that grew out of one woman’s basement in Des Moines rehabilitates thousands of wild birds ...

A global research team led by researchers from the University of Kentucky Martin-Gatton College of Agriculture, Food and Environment has found that Antarctica's only native insect is already ingesting ...

Kait Hanson is a lifestyle reporter with more than ten years of experience writing stories on entertainment, travel, food and more. Her work has been featured by Vanity Fair, CNN, TIME, TODAY and more ...

The eastern tarantula (Selenocosmia crassipes) is a formidable spider that could give anyone — not just arachnophobes — quite a fright. Commonly known as Australia’s “bird-eating spider,” its ...