Bears have always caught people’s attention– not just because they’re big and strong, but because they’ve learned to live in so many different places. From freezing cold coasts to warm, thick forests, ...

The New World screwworm is a fly larva that infests the living tissue of warm-blooded animals, including humans, that causes ...

Ant-eating mammals evolved independently over a dozen times since the fall of the dinosaurs.

Camofrog doesn’t just have military experience. Camofrog is the wilderness. He’s got jungle instincts. He’s not pretending to be camo; he is camo. You’d be walking in the woods and then bam, you’re ...

The plants that have evolved to become carnivorous grow in places where they have enough sunlight and water but not enough ...

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with entomologist Edwin Burgess about a plan to combat flash-eating maggots threatening U.S. livestock. It involves breeding billions of flies and dropping them from planes.

New research highlights the prevalence of maggots as an easily obtained, nutrient-rich supplement of ancient hominin diets.

Some mammals evolved to eat only ants and termites. It happened at least twelve times. These animals developed special ...

In the animal kingdom, you might think you know what animals eat, but you’d be surprised by some of the unexpected things creatures consume! From scavengers to predators, animals have developed ...

They eat caterpillars, beetles, termites, wasps and spiders, or even small animals such as rabbits, birds, lizards, and domestic animals, which usually die due to asphyxia.

In a world facing growing food security challenges, insects represent a nutritional goldmine that billions of people have been harvesting for millennia.