Learn how three new toad species from Tanzania’s Eastern Arc Mountains evolved to skip the tadpole stage — revealing one of ...

The fossil, called Cretosabethes primaevus, shared traits with modern mosquitoes. Scientists think it lived in small water ...

The “excellently preserved” fossil from the Cretaceous era, dating back 99 million years, comes from the Kachin region in ...

A mosquito larva entombed in amber for about 99 million years is now the oldest known of its kind, according to a new study. The fossil comes from Kachin in northern Myanmar and likely formed when ...

The fossil was uncovered in Myanmar’s Kachin region and has been identified as a new species named Cretosabethes primaevus.

When Anne Jensen was a young girl growing up in Mt. Pleasant, she learned a lot about nature. Her father, Byron Clendening, was head of the audio-visual department at Central Michigan University, and ...

Larvae from aquatic invasive mussels have been detected in Montana for the first time. Water samples from Tiber Reservoir east of Shelby tested positive for the larvae of aquatic invasive mussels, ...

With striking high-speed video footage, scientists have for the first time detailed how predatory mosquito larvae attack and capture prey in aquatic habitats. This new research sheds light on behavior ...

ALMOST any collection of freshwater animals will contain a high proportion of insects in the larval or nymphal stage,and a number of these cannot, at present, be named with certainty. The work of many ...

Cigarette filters are the world’s most common form of litter. Researchers from the University of Gothenburg can now show that the filters leak thousands of toxins and plastic fibres that are toxic to ...

Larvae of caddisfly, aquatic insects of the order Trichoptera, using substrate particles, build tiny tubes where they protect their fragile bodies and carry out the metamorphosis which will transform ...

THE larva of the caddis fly, Setodes tineiformis Curtis (Trichoptera, Leptoceridæ), has recently been described by me 1 from material obtained from a large artificial lake in Surrey. It was found to ...