An array of perfectly preserved insects and even a spider’s web, encased in 112-million-year-old amber, have been found in a quarry in the Amazon rainforest.

A sand quarry in Ecuador has yielded South America’s first amber with bio-inclusions, including a spider's web and a ...

Silent assassin. A predatory Australian insect creeps up on spiders undetected by breaking their webs thread-by-thread and suppressing the resulting vibrations. Spiders are highly attuned to ...

The abundance of large orb web spiders in the Swiss midland has declined drastically over the last 40 years. The main reason for this is the shrinking food supply available to these insectivorous ...

The recovery of biodiversity after the end-Cretaceous mass extinction was much more chaotic than previously thought, according to paleontologists. New fossil evidence shows that at certain times and ...

The purpose of the study was to determine whether undergraduate students receiving web-based instruction based on traditional, key character, or classification instruction differed in their ...

Grasshoppers, Japanese beetles, June beetles and many other insects occupy fairly commonplace niches. The adults feed on foliage and lay their eggs in the soil. From masterful disguises to physical ...