In today’s “oh shit, the apocalypse is imminent, isn’t it?” news, a recently released study has pointed out a “precipitous” decline in the number of the world’s insects, and suggests that they could ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The New Forest cicada, or Cicadetta montana, has not been seen since the 1990s (Getty/iStock) A species of musical insect extinct ...

Giant dragonflies once roamed earth’s skies. New research upends the textbook theory of why they went extinct. Insects first took to the skies about 350 million years ago, some 200 million years ...

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RESEARCHERS HAVE successfully trained detection dogs to sniff out the endangered insects of the Victorian high country. The Alpine stonefly (Thaumatoperla alpina), which calls Falls Creek home, is ...

This 93-year-old Xerces blue butterfly specimen was used in a study to prove it was once a unique species. (Courtesy Field Museum) Monarch butterflies are in steep decline. Numbering some 1.2 million ...

When black rats invaded Lord Howe Island after the 1918 wreck of the steamship Makambo, they wiped out numerous native species on the small Australian island, including a big, flightless insect that ...

The Wedderburn resident has grafted a solid reputation over many years as a notable entomologist with a passion for sharing his interest with the community. The 51-year-old always had a love of ...