October 20, 2015 Got the chills yet? Invasive cockroach found in NYC can withstand harsh winter cold The High Line, a park that turned a dilapidated stretch of elevated railway on Manhattan's West Side into one of New York's newest tourist attractions, may have brought a different kind of visit...
October 20, 2015 Fossil captures ancient insects having sex About 165 million years ago Bam! froghoppers' mating session was interrupted by a volcanic eruption
October 20, 2015 Moth with ultrasonic hearing discovered The ubiquitous greater wax moth is ordinary in every way but one: It has the ability to hear the highest-known sound frequency.
October 20, 2015 Federal government announces plan to bolster honeybee, butterfly populations The federal government hopes to reverse America's declining honeybee and monarch butterfly populations by making more federal land bee-friendly, spending more money on research and considering the use of less pesticides.
October 20, 2015 Scientist slammed for killing puppy-sized spider When scientist Piotr Naskrecki encountered a puppy-sized spider in Guyana, his photos of the giant arachnid quickly became an Internet sensation. While the huge spider generated massive buzz, however, the Harvard researcher has come in for a firestorm of criticism for killing the creature and bringing it back to a museum.
October 20, 2015 Study: Monarch butterflies may use magnetic compass for autumn migrations to central Mexico A new study suggests that monarch butterflies use an internal magnetic compass to help navigate on their annual migrations from North America to central Mexico.
October 20, 2015 Found: Rare beetle collected by Darwin 180 years ago A brightly colored beetle collected by Charles Darwin more than 180 years ago has been identified as a new species after hiding in museum storage for decades.
October 20, 2015 For male spiders, it's twerk or be eaten Miley Cyrus may have made "twerking" a household word, but male black widow spiders are the real masters of the rump-jiggling dance move.
October 20, 2015 Meet the castle-raiding 'pillage ant' A new species of ant that raids the acorn castles of other insects and captures them as slaves has been discovered on the forest floors of the northeastern United States.
October 20, 2015 Mystery of bizarre Amazon web formations unraveled About six months ago, a graduate student at the Georgia Institute of Technology first spotted a mysterious web unlike anything scientists had seen before: Each one of the weird webs was a tiny sphere surrounded by a circular fence less than an inch in diameter.
