Meet the roly-poly pill bug, a backyard “bug” that is actually a crustacean cousin of shrimp and crabs living on dry land.

Quick, imagine an animal tongue. What came into your mind? The flicking forked tongue of a snake? A cow licking a block of ...

Crawfish are a delicious seafood that can be enjoyed many different ways, but you might not want to eat the shells themselves ...

Most ants are less than an inch long, making them very small insects. While their petite stature may seem like a problem for ...

Before scientists even knew how many Florida scrub millipedes were left in the wild, a quiet breakthrough happened in a ...

Most ants are less than an inch long, making them very small insects. While their petite stature may seem like a problem for ...

Horseshoe crabs have survived 300 million years with little change. Their blue blood protects humans from bacterial ...

Kelli Carroll, a zookeeper at the Lake Superior Zoo, introduces The Lift to the zoo’s blue-death feigning beetles.

When filmmakers slipped a robot crab into a real crab aggregation, they expected curiosity. What they captured instead was a ...

Earth looked much different not just millions, but even decades and centuries ago. Many animal species that once existed are ...

Our bones did not begin deep inside the body. They started in the skin, not long after the first complex animals took shape.

Researchers have developed a spray-on powder that turns into a wound-conforming gel when it comes in contact with blood. The breakthrough has the possibility of dramatically improving wound care in ...