After 10 weeks packing up lunchboxes then parking the kids at the school gates, the fortnight of mandatory fun many parents dread has rolled back around.

Discovered in Australia, these fossilized fish are so well-preserved that paleontologists can see what they last ate roughly ...

In Stephen Brown's collection of about 20,000 butterflies are three new species he discovered while searching the country's ...

Mites are common in the Antarctic – there are hundreds of species. Some even live in the nasal cavities of penguins. Penguin ...

Fall armyworms have spread throughout the world, destroying crops and evolving insecticide resistance. New research in ...

Tennis Australia this week said “Ballkids,” a 65-minute film, is set to “lift the lid on the unsung heroes of the Australian ...

Ecologists are investigating the decline of insect populations in the world's tropical forests. Insects, the most abundant and diverse group of animals on Earth, are experiencing alarming declines, ...

The largest species of flightless insect, the Lord Howe Island stick insect, grows up to 15cm (5.9 inches) long.

The insect, also known as the Lord Howe Island phasmid, is native to a remote archipelago in the Tasman Sea off Australia.

A team of ecologists from The University of Hong Kong (HKU) are leading an international initiative to investigate the ...