A rare rainforest insect, Arota festae, starts life bright pink before slowly turning green, revealing a surprising ...

A colossal stick insect found living in the highland rainforest of northeastern Australia could be the chonkiest (read: heaviest) bug the continent has to offer. Acrophylla alta, as the species has ...

Researchers exploring Uganda’s Kibale National Park have discovered seven new species of frog-like leafhoppers. The tiny ...

This Aussie bug is breaking records — and possibly a few branches. Scientists have discovered a hefty new species of stick insect in a remote Australian rainforest, and it could be the heaviest ever ...

Scientists in Australia have discovered a new species of stick insect believed to be the heaviest in the country, weighing the same as a golf ball. The remote rainforest in Far North Queensland, ...

Quick Take A recent study suggests many Amazon insects already live near their upper heat tolerance, meaning rising temperatures could threaten up to half of species in some regions by the end of the ...

(MENAFN- The Arabian Post) Large numbers of insect species in the Amazon rainforest may struggle to survive rising global temperatures, according to a sweeping scientific analysis examining the ...

A new study by Dr Tom M. Fayle of Queen Mary University of London, Dr Kalsum M. Yusah of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and Dr Jiri Tuma of the Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech ...

Two new frog species have recently been discovered on the small, boulder-studded Dauan Island off Queensland. The frogs have been named for their granite boulder habitat: Choerophyrne koeypad (“rocky ...

One might think that hundreds of insects gnawing away at a tree would be destructive to the local biodiversity of an environment. A local grasshopper on a tree in the Amazon rainforest. (Courtesy of ...

Stingless bees in Peru now have legal rights, recognizing their ecological importance and protecting vital rainforest ...

LOS ANGELES - A recent study warned that the nearly 2,000 species of fireflies in existence could soon face extinction from a variety of threats including habitat loss, pesticide use and light ...