T he blooming of a titan arum, or corpse plant, is a spectacle like none other in the plant world. A pale spike resembling ...

A study from Kobe University has uncovered a surprising partnership between Japanese red elder plants and Heterhelus beetles.

University of the Witwatersrand provides support as a hosting partner of The Conversation AFRICA. Baobabs aren’t supposed to fall. They can live for up to 2,500 years. Famous for their resilience, ...

Rove beetles cloak themselves in ant pheromones to sneak into the insects’ nests for protection. But in an odd catch-22, that makes them forever reliant on their hosts Sceptobius beetles groom ants to ...

Life may look like a paradise for beetles living in ant colonies. Plump, wriggling ant larvae and helpless eggs sit waiting to be devoured, while hundreds of thousands of ants stand at the ready to ...

Colorado’s warm and dry winters have tipped the balance in a long-running ecological tug-of-war. The mountain pine beetles, native insects to the Centennial State, have recently exploded in numbers in ...

Martha Stewart is practically aging backwards -- so of course we had to give her new skincare a try. marthastewart48/Instagram; Page Six/Hannah Southwick Page Six may ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. The goldspotted oak borer has been detected in Ventura County, the northernmost known frontier of the ...

The last 19 original trees in St. Helena’s historic elm tunnel were removed in November, the victims of Dutch elm disease. Meanwhile, a group of volunteers wants future generations to experience once ...

Sexual selection, which can create diverse speciation as males develop attributes in competition with other males, can change the course of evolution. A 40-year-long experiment analyzed the sexual ...

When males are forced to compete for females, new species form more rapidly. This has been shown in a new study where the researchers compared beetles allowed to mate freely with groups of the same ...