In the southern United States and across Latin America, kissing bugs can bite people and pets both outdoors and when they enter homes. While ...

The AKC Canine Health Foundation (CHF) today named eight semifinalists for the 2026 Canine Health Discovery of the Year Award, which honors the year’s most important advancements in canine health. The ...

More than 41 million people are living with HIV worldwide, and approximately 570,000 died from AIDS-related illnesses in 2025 ...

The loss of sanctity, the pressure on the body, and the absurdity of masculine authority, which were visible in 'The Kissing ...

A large-scale reanalysis of 86 RNA-seq libraries shows that the developmental gene expression programs of Trypanosoma cruzi ...

Think you might know what the 10 deadliest animals might be? Our expert guide rounds up the animals causing the most number ...

Outside of the world of natural history, moths have tended to be given a marginal role. However, some artists have been as ...

Violet Clinton is doing award-winning entomological field research. Her dad still has to buy the beer for her moth bait.

I’m talking, of course, about a praying mantis. Apex predators of the insect world, praying mantises (so-called because their ...

An integrative study combining morphology, DNA barcoding, and complete mitochondrial genomes has revised the African ...

Some 99 million years ago, during the age of the dinosaurs, a tiny insect belonging to a species previously unknown to science became trapped in tree resin. The resin hardened and turned into amber, ...

While insects provide an essential food source for many vertebrate species, they're more than just a protein-laden snack. Chimpanzees use them to sterilize wounds, and herons use them as fishing bait.