Science writer Mindy Weisberger speaks to Live Science about the parasites that turn their hosts — whether ant, beetle or caterpillar — into zombie-like puppets that act against their own interests.

Imagine the thrill of peering into deep time, only to find a fossil within a fossil — a silent, stone-etched echo of life ...

This could have been useful for finding food, such as plant roots and burrowing insects, or for building nests in the ground. The holotype fossil (the fossil which leads to the naming of a new ...

Its larvae are notorious for burrowing under healthy bark to eat. The insect, which is native to ... emissions from power plants that burn fossil fuels. New Jersey is among 11 states involved ...

But as Bino points out, undertaking the study also highlighted the paucity of our understanding of the plight of the platypus ...

Ormond Beach's Environmental Discovery Center hosted the annual Earth Day event with a variety of nature-themed activities ...

This could have been useful for finding food, such as plant roots and burrowing insects, or for building nests in the ground. The holotype fossil (the fossil which leads to the naming of a new species ...

They also line their burrows ... them living fossils that bridge the evolutionary gap between aquatic and terrestrial vertebrates. The red flat bark beetle (Cucujus clavipes) has developed perhaps the ...

The Badlands National Park is in South Dakota and is known for its various rock formations and fossil collections ... owls nest in burrows dug by other animals, such as prairie dogs. They are active ...

The museum has one of the world’s largest collections of fossilized insects and contains specimens from northeastern Brazil’s ...