About 20,000 years ago, a family of owls lived in a cave. Sometimes, they would cough up owl pellets containing the bones of ...

“For queen bumblebees, who seek pre-made spots to start colonies, there’s nothing cozier than an abandoned mouse or squirrel ...

Bees are frequently associated with large queen-serving colonies featuring hundreds if not thousands of insects. In actuality ...

From old men’s beards and string-of-sausages lichens to redwings, fieldfares and even ‘fairies’, Scotland’s trees play host to a wealth of natural decorations ...

I spotted this creature at Killygarvan graveyard, Rathmullan, Co Donegal in July – a toad – but it doesn’t match the pictures ...

Nature can be pretty metal when it wants, and a testament to this is the recent discovery that bees sometimes use hollowed ...

All around you, animals are building, burrowing or stealing dwellings for themselves and their families. For others, home is ...

Wood ducks thrive on a flexible diet of acorns, plants, and insects, helping them recover across North America.

Watch a pond frog effortlessly devour the northern giant hornet, the largest hornet in the world, while sustaining stings ...

Our readers have spoken—here are the very Best of the Best of the Triangle (or, the BOBOTTs, as we’ve come to call them in the newsroom). This year, once again, the INDY spread its beloved reader poll ...

Laughing matters. It always has. But laughing may matter even more in modern times. Does anyone think that during the Middle Ages, or even in the late 19th century, ordinary citizens spent as much ...