With bloated bellies and hairy legs, female flies try to look bigger to get food from courting mates. But male flies, in turn, have sharpened their eyesight to call their bluff. A new study by ...

In the long and storied history of earth, there have been five mass extinctions, the most famous, of course, being the ...

With the BCCI making domestic cricket mandatory for international stars, players like Kohli, Rohit Sharma, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shubman Gill, Rishabh Pant, and KL Rahul have returned to the Ranji Trophy, ...

A grasshopper, Melanoplus boulderensis, typical of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado. This species matures later in the year, in mid-June. Research ...

Piyush Chawla is also one of the most successful bowlers in the Indian Premier League (IPL) history. As of May 2024, he has ...

Spinners also seem to have been more economical in recent times. Stats from ESPN cricinfo show that between 2016 and 2024, ...

Scientists used 65-year-old grasshopper collections to uncover how climate change affects insect sizes, revealing which species thrive.

Garter snakes, belonging to the genus Thamnophis, are nonvenomous snakes found in North America, known for their striking ...

Some biologists speculate that animals will get smaller with global warming to reduce heat stress. While this may be true of warm-blooded animals, what about exotherms like insects? Thanks to a ...

The biggest danger for wildlife is the aftermath. But many species have evolved to rely on the opportunities created by ...

An ant that disappears into the forest floor, a bird that demands attention from mates—for these animals, an inky black ...

Scientists and Indigenous community members documented 27 new-to-science species in Peru’s Alto Mayo region, including four ...