While often overlooked, insects pose significant threats to human health, transmitting deadly diseases like malaria and Chagas disease, and delivering ...

Insects are often tiny and easily overlooked, yet some pose serious threats to human health and life, either through venomous stings, aggressive behaviour, or disease transmission. Understanding which ...

Some plants have multiple insects that can pollinate them. Conditions such as the weather or the season can reduce this ...

Experiments reveal that pond frogs can eat highly venomous hornets without suffering noticeable damage, even after repeated ...

A remarkable resistance to venom has been discovered in a frog that feasts on hornets despite their deadly stingers. This frog could potentially serve as a model organism for studies on mechanisms ...

Scientists have discovered an ant species which uses a technique so devious to start a colony that it could change our understanding of animal social systems. Beginning a colony can be perilous for a ...

Most people picture a vet cuddling puppies in a clinic. But out in the wild? My work has involved sedating rhinos from ...

Pond frogs' tolerance to hornet venom positions them as key predators and valuable models for studying pain resistance and ...

Researchers have found that pond frogs can withstand repeated stings from hornets, including the powerful Asian giant hornet, while actively hunting and eating them.

The AIADMK on Wednesday formally announced its general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami as its chief ministerial candidate for the 2026 Assembly election, vesting him with “full and absolute authority ...

Queens of some ant species have evolved an unusually hostile mode for colony takeover: they infiltrate colonies of other ant species and manipulate the worker ants into killing their own queen — their ...

Honey badgers are not actually named for their love of honey, in fact, they raid bee hives to loot the delicious, ...