By Shanna Hanbury Ant queens practice a grim but effective form of childcare, eating their own sick larvae to recycle them ...

The Eiffinger’s tree frog (Kurixalus eiffingeri) could be said to have the most house-proud babies in nature, as their ...

More adventurous diners might try escamoles or “Mexican caviar,” which is ant larvae taken from the roots of the agave plant ...

All the queens were seen to survive even after eating infected larvae. The researchers suggest this may be due to the queen ...

Brains are bewilderingly complicated systems of connections between neurons. Mapping those connections is an important step ...

Ant queens eat their infected offspring at the first sign of illness a study led by the University of Oxford has shown.

Chef Alvaro Clavijo runs one of the world's best restaurants. Here's where he dines in his hometown, from traditional markets ...

Noblella arutam, or the Arutam leaf litter frog, was discovered hidden under leaves on the forest floor, actively moving ...

The ABC has begun its quest to find out which native six-legged marvel is Australia's most popular insect for 2024. Six ...

The worm snake might be one of the most elusive and curious creatures you’ve never seen. These small, fossorial snakes spend most of their lives underground or hidden in leaf litter, making them one ...

A recent pilot study shows that nests of the Lesser Antillean iguana on Sint Eustatius are used by several other plant and ...