The famous synchronized fireflies are just one of many types of insects that fall under the purview of national park ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. From bears and bobcats to eagles and elk, 22,893 species have been documented so far in Great Smoky Mountains National Park—and ...

Becky Nichols, the park’s long-time entomologist, has dedicated her career to learning about and protecting lifeforms like bees, wasps, moths, and butterflies.

Should you ever find yourself playing a trivia game on the topic of moths and butterflies, here are a few facts that might ...

Andrei Alyokhin is a professor of Applied Entomology in the University of Maine's School of Biology and Ecology. One of his ...

Scientists discover thousands of new species every year, and a surprising number of those creatures end up named after pop ...

Roughly 300 years ago, Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus set out to identify and name every living organism on Earth. He described more than 10,000 species of plants and animals prior to his death, per ...

In the canals, marshes, and swamps of the Florida Everglades, invasive fish are silently slipping into new waterways. Among them are the Asian swamp eel and the bullseye snakehead, two air-breathing ...

Transported hundreds of kilometres by rain, rivers and ocean currents, toxic chemicals are finding their way into the Indian Ocean and building up in the fragile coral reefs between Lake St Lucia and ...

Walt Disney World employs a sophisticated environmental engineering strategy to combat mosquitoes, focusing on preventing ...

Scientists are naming new species after celebrities-and some choices may surprise you.