In a first for nature and the planet, an insect has been given official legal rights. The revolutionary move comes from Peru, ...

Experts say the bee species keeps the Amazon's ecosystems pollinated and produces honey with medicinal properties ...

Learn how stingless bees quietly sustain Amazonian forests — and how a new law is changing what happens when they’re harmed.

If evolutionary biologists are the detectives of the natural world’s past mysteries, then the phylogenic tree is their version of a cork board of crime-scene suspects linked together with red string ...

Researchers have documented a remarkable behavior among wild chimpanzees: chimps applying insects to wounds on themselves or others, perhaps as a sort of first aid. Little is still known about the ...

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