Three hundred million years ago, dragonfly-like creatures with wingspans stretching 70 centimeters patrolled the skies of a world nothing like our own. These griffinflies, as paleontologists call ...

She appeared as a flash of green in the corner of the garden. Michell De Leon Tyler registered the rapid burr of wings and the flash of sunlight off iridescent feathers, but the hummingbird was gone ...

The craze for collecting ants takes Kenya by surprise as smugglers zone in to make a profit.

Autumn is a beloved season of poets, yet what the poets and writers do not always tell us about this “season of mellow fruitfulness,” as John Keats describes it, is that it is also a season of ...

The animals most likely to harm you in the United States aren’t always the ones you’d expect. While sharks, alligators, and other predators tend to dominate headlines, they account for relatively few ...