A Swiss zoo has successfully bred the most poisonous animal on the planet, a yellow frog that is native to the Colombian rainforest. Experts at Zurich Zoo, in Switzerland, were…
Hungry frogs trying to gobble up male wasps have found that their manhoods can carry a nasty sting in the tail, a new study has revealed. Scientists in Japan -…
Scorpion overpowers a hapless cockroach and stings it repeatedly before devouring it has been captured and shared by a biologist. https://youtube.com/shorts/2L0lQ32KViM @wonder_insectarium/Newsflash It was shared alongside a piece of footage…
Environmentalists have made an urgent appeal to protect wild bees after discovering that their numbers have plunged by up to 80 per cent. Britta Raabe from NABU - one of…
Scientists have revealed that the Earth is populated by an astonishing 20 quadrillion ants in ecosystems all around the world. A research team led by biologists Dr Patrick Schultheiss and…
Stone Age farmers in southern France were fighting mice and insects feasting on their supplies 4,000 years ago, a new study has revealed. An international team of archaeologists led by…
Prehistoric dinosaur birds preferred to snack on insects instead of fish, a new study has revealed. It had been believed that the 120 million-year-old Longipterygidae family's long beaks with sharp…
The global honeybee population could be endangered by a newly discovered deadly virus, a leading scientist has warned. Prof Dr Robert Paxton from Martin Luther University Halle Wittenberg (MLU) in…
A British company has provoked fury after releasing genetically modified mosquitoes into the wild that could produce new strains of super-mozzies, say critics. UK-based Oxitec say the hacked insects contain…
Black car paint could become a secret weapon in the battle to kill the yellow fever mosquito which has a natural resistance to some insecticides. In a study appearing in…