Nickels’ photograph took gold in the Behavior-Mammals category at the 2025 World Nature Photography Awards. This year’s ...

Scientists observed fruit flies playing by spinning on disks. Some preferred this over eating. The behavior appeared ...

Supun Dilshan won the Photographer of the Year Portfolio for “Trapped Between Worlds,” a set of images capturing the plight ...

While sexual reproduction is the predominant strategy among animals, some species have evolved the ability to reproduce asexually ...

Traditional drones rely on visual sensors like cameras and lasers for navigation, but these can be unreliable in harsh conditions such as low light, dust storms, ...

Researchers in Japan have developed a bio-hybrid drone using silkworm moth antennae for advanced odor sensing.

One of the most surprising findings was that the male stick insects had completely lost their reproductive function. In most ...

Scientists have for the first time demonstrated play-like behavior in flies. They found that fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster) voluntarily and repeatedly visited a carousel.

Turner was the first scientist to prove certain insects could remember, learn and feel. Courtesy of Charles I. Abramson, CC BY-ND ...

These results were among the first in a cascade of groundbreaking discoveries that Turner made about insect behavior. Across his distinguished 33-year career, Turner authored 71 papers and was the ...

A farmer notices an unfamiliar insect on a leaf. Is this a pollinator? Or a pest? Good news at harvest time? Or bad? Need to be controlled? Or not? That farmer can snap a picture, use a smartphone ...