Humans are animal chauvinists: we like our insects pretty. As fall arrives, the monarch butterfly and praying mantids may ...

Scientists reflect on the life and work of a researcher whose discoveries made them rethink what it means to be human.

Dr Jane Goodall’s revolutionary research into the behaviours of chimpanzees in their natural habitat changed our perception ...

Ricardo Pérez-de la Fuente, a paleoentomologist at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, also not involved, highlighted that this marks the first identification of ancient beetles, flies, ...

On a North Sea oil rig several years ago, an engineer noticed a strange phenomenon. A cloud of insects would descend from the ...

Aida May KB loves teaching children about tiny isopods and showing them how even the smallest bugs play an important role in ...

Jane Goodall, the pioneering primatologist, conservationist and activist who became the world’s leading expert on chimpanzees ...

Invasive hornets, air quality and pollution, and the power of comics to make you happy are among a vibrant programme of ...

In the wake of H is for Hawk ’s success, publishers have acquired numerous memoirs of friendships between humans and wild animals that similarly attempt to inspire empathy and, with it, conservation ...

Queen Elizabeth II appointed Goodall a Dame of the British Empire, and the United Nations named her a Messenger of Peace in ...

Bats are understudied in West Africa. An ecologist couple is building a network of bat conservationists to boost research and ...

Estonian filmmaker Aare Baumer has completed a documentary, inspired by the search for "singing sand" on beaches.