While many people from outside Guangdong province shun insects as food, bug dishes are common on dinner tables in the ...

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Deep in the tropical rainforests of northern Ecuador, researchers equipped with slingshots launched traps scented with ...

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Aalmi Mushaira in Dubai, Phoolan Devi spoke of survival, injustice, and defiance—rejecting the 'dacoit' label and demanding ...

This spring, residents across New Jersey can expect to see Brood XIV, or Brood 14, emerge likely around mid-May or when the area gets a "good rain," Gene Kritsky, founder of Cicada Safari, a group ...

There are animals on our planet capable of aging in reverse. How do they accomplish this and what does it mean for human aging? Find out now.

Chinese scientists have found a 125-million-year-old venomous scorpion fossil in northeast China. The discovery, made by ...

A counterpart to the Ruddy shelduck (Surkhab) in terms of an ‘airborne early warning system’, the redshank is an alert and excitable bird, and the first to take flight and issue an alarm call while in ...