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Researchers have identified three fossil insects, including a 40-million-year-old extinct ant, inside two pieces of amber that belonged to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. The amber, housed in Weimar, had ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. The Lord Howe stick insect (Dryococelus australis) was ...
The giant insect, native to New Zealand, weighs roughly as much as a chicken egg and was reduced to a single-island ...
Just because a species is presumed extinct doesn’t mean it’s gone forever. Here are four glowing examples of this unique, and felicitous, phenomenon. Not all species that have been classified as ...
Some animals rely on insects not for food but for something far stranger, and losing them would leave these species ...
Tucked deep in Fernbank’s WildWoods trail, Levon Biss’ special touring macrophotography exhibit “Extinct and Endangered: Insects in Peril” features large prints of the United Kingdom photographer’s ...
MISSOURI, USA — Lights in the Midwest's summer nights have grown dimmer over the past decades. The glowing flicks of fireflies, or lightning bugs, trigger nostalgia and deeply held childhood memories ...
The Hawaiian islands are known as the most isolated group of inhabited islands on the planet. The insects and animals that reached Hawaii millions of years ago evolved completely away from the rest of ...