Dr. Oliver Beckers, Murray State University principal investigator and associate professor in the Department of Biological Sciences, has made quite the discovery: a new species of fly.

People and animals create lots of waste that is usually sent to landfills, incinerated, or stored in engineered ponds such as ...

To address this, the researchers used a flight simulator system that allowed individual moths to fly in any direction while attached to a tether ( Dreyer et al., 2021 ). The researchers were able to ...

Bats – the world’s only flying mammals and the only group of mammals that are indigenous to Dominica.    Yes, the agouti, the wild pig, and the mannikou (opossum) were introduced to the Nature Isle by ...

From venomous ants to zombie wasps, these insect predators deploy some of the grisliest hunting strategies in the natural ...

When a ladybug lands on you, it means good luck! So how do they fly to land on people? Read here to learn more?

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

Fast-moving animals process visual information at higher speeds, reshaping how they hunt, escape predators, and experience time.

When most people think of flies, they think of buzzing, annoying household pests. But this insect with well over 120,000 species plays a valuable ecological role. One type in particular ...

The bogong moth is a night-flying species that travels remarkable distances twice a year to and from the Australian Alps, ...

From dragonflies to starfish, new Trinity research shows that the speed of visual perception across the animal kingdom is driven by lifestyle and environment, with fast-paced lives demanding faster ...

Most plants get on just fine with sunshine, water, and half-decent soil. Carnivorous plants don’t have that option. They tend to live in places where the soil is so poor in nutrients that normal roots ...