A hummingbird chick in Panama mimics a poisonous caterpillar to avoid predators—a rare case of bird-to-insect mimicry. When ...

The strange globes crowning Bocydium’s body resemble globs of Cordyceps, an insect-killing fungus common in rainforests. Though the pronota are large, they’re also hollow and lightweight ...

We estimate that about 80 percent of the Goliathus cacicus population has been wiped out in Côte d'Ivoire if we consider the amount of forest destroyed for cocoa farming. Goliathus regius has ...

When Jay Falk and Scott Taylor first saw the white-necked Jacobin hummingbird chick in Panama’s dense rainforest, the bird ...

The Amazon rainforest is always thought of as a pleasantly ... The researchers concluded that most of the insects and mammals included in the study coped well with the cold. However, a quarter ...

For the first time, scientists described a hummingbird chick potentially mimicking a poisonous caterpillar to avoid getting eaten.

Misunderstood and often feared, insects play a crucial role in nature – something that 31-year-old Wendy Zhang hopes to ...

And it's eating a banana. One of over three thousand types of fruit that grow in the rainforest. There's an insect too! A butterfly. They can taste fruit through their feet. Imagine that!

In the South American rainforest you’ll find insects, sloths, and howler monkeys here. Coming next is the main canopy at 20-30m. It’s home to birds and acts a bit like an umbrella, shading the ...

Conservationists emphasize preserving rainforests and engaging local communities ... One of the world’s largest insects, the Goliath beetle, is teetering on the edge of extinction, and the ...