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 ...

Two new frog species have recently been discovered on the small, boulder-studded Dauan Island off Queensland. The frogs have ...

"The battle between plants and insects increases the number of habitats in the rainforest," thus increasing the diversity of trees living there, says biology doctoral student Paul Fine, first author ...

Don't miss out on the headlines from Animals. Followed categories will be added to My News. The insect, weighing around 44g and measuring 40cm long, is believed to be the heaviest ever found in 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 ...

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 ...

The rich diversity of trees in tropical forests may be “the result of subtle strategies that allow each species to occupy its own ecological niche” rather than random dispersal, report researchers ...

35 years ago, scientist Brad Lister left the Puerto Rican Luquillo rainforest after studying the arthropods of the region. He left an area that had a thriving insect population that provided food for ...

National Geographic Explorer Leo Lanna has not spent more than a few days without the company of a praying mantis in the last seven years. His living room is a laboratory, housing 50 to 200 of the ...

We are near the end of our journey through the Pacaya Samiria National Reserve, and we have experienced so many new sights and sounds that it is hard to recount all of them in our updates. Each week ...