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 ...

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 ...

If there’s any animal that’s easy to recognize, it would have to be the giraffe. With their towering height, elegant […] ...

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

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Much of this depends on climate patterns. “The warmer it is, the more pests will thrive and the more populations we’ll see,” ...