Hard, lean and strong, an inch-long stone fly lurks in the depths of Woods Creek north of Monroe. Nearby an unaware mayfly scrapes a meal of algae off a rock. Suddenly the stone fly scurries across ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The word “adaptation” is used in many ways by climate scientists, but it has a very specific meaning to biologists: It refers to ...

In the past, many scientists believed that only mammals and birds could feel or think in complex ways. Reptiles, fish, and insects were seen as simple creatures that reacted purely on instinct. But ...

Since passage of the Endangered Species Act 50 years ago, more than 1,700 plants, mammals, fish, insects and other species in the U.S. have been listed as threatened or endangered with extinction. Yet ...

Insects as a viable animal feed have been receiving increasing recognition due to their high energy and protein content. Since July 2017, EU legislation has been changed and now permits that animals ...

A researcher in the west African country of Benin is working on how to make a better insect-based fish feed, aiming to replace more costly, less sustainable fish-meal. The global aquaculture market ...

The catfish Silurus asotus was fed eight aquatic beetle species of varying body sizes of the families Gyrinidae, Dytiscidae and Hydrophilidae, including Regimbartia attenuata, to examine their escape ...

Since passage of the Endangered Species Act 50 years ago, more than 1,700 plants, mammals, fish, insects and other species in the U.S. have been listed as threatened or endangered with extinction. Yet ...

This past Tuesday (June 11), Dutch company Protix opened the world’s largest insect farm in Bergem op Zoom, a small town in the south of the Netherlands. Founded in 2009 by Dutch ...

A new trove of plant, insect, fish and other fossils offers an unprecedented snapshot of Australia’s wetter, forest-dominated past. McGraths Flat in New South Wales contains thousands of beautifully ...