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…
A sex-mad fly trapped in amber 100 million years ago while on his way to tempt a mate with a floral gift has been hailed as the world's earliest recorded…
This bouquet of 'flowers' made up of over 2,000 diamonds and other jewels that was gifted by Empress Maria Theresa to the Holy Roman Emperor is set to go on…
This beautiful speckled white moth is of a previously unknown population that has survived isolated hundreds of miles from any similar moths since the last ice age, 12,000 years ago,…
A prehistoric mayfly that probably only may have only lived for minutes before dying has managed to survive as a fossil for up to 125 million years before being found…
Scientists who won an Ig Nobel prize for research that showed darker horses were more often bitten by horseflies than lighter ones have published research showing how this may have…