The stench of a rare corpse flower make us retch. But you’re not the target –the plant wants to lure carrion beetles and ...

If you thought Australia’s spiders were scary, wait until you see the prehistoric version. Scientists have found a fossilised ...

The Village Voice review of "Elevation" finds that director George Nolfi knows how to keep an old sci-fi genre fresh.

Vin Diesel, Radha Mitchell, Keith David, and a lack of bozos… It can only be 2000’s “Pitch Black,” one of the finer entries in the always-popular “Alien” homage movie genre. We enthuse about elevated ...

Works from this August are also being revealed in addition to the Monarch Festival. A giant mosaic butterfly was splattered against brick inside the nook and outside of the museum next to the street ...

An evolutionary ‘air race’ may have been taking place in forests during the age of dinosaurs. Fossils of giant cicadas show how they developed improved flight abilities following the evolution of ...

In their paper, published in Science Advances, the group examined evolutional changes in more than 80 species of cicada wings during the Mesozoic era. Scientists have been studying the ...

A recent study on global giant cicadas by Chinese scientists has provided novel insight on the adaptive aerodynamic evolution of Palaeontinidae, and supports the hypothesis of an aerial ...

25) in the journal Science Advances. The study analyzed changes in giant cicadas in the Dunstaniidae and Palaeontinidae families during the Mesozoic era (252 million to 66 million years ago). They ...

The research suggests predation by birds drove this rapid development in an evolutionary"air race," culminating in cicadas that more closely resembled modern species. For the new research, the team ...

When dinosaurs thundered across the land, a giant, cicada-like bug called Palaeontinidae flew in the sky and fed on tree sap. But something disturbed its peaceful existence — and triggered the ...

The research suggests predation by birds drove this rapid development in an evolutionary "air race," culminating in cicadas that more closely resembled modern species. But ancient giant cicadas ...