Nature is often portrayed as a battlefield where every species competes for food, territory, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The word “adaptation” is used in many ways by climate scientists, but it has a very specific meaning to biologists: It refers to ...

A researcher in the west African country of Benin is working on how to make a better insect-based fish feed, aiming to replace more costly, less sustainable fish-meal. The global aquaculture market ...

A new study from the University of Eastern Finland shows that lettuce can take up nanoplastics from the soil and transfer them into the food chain. The paper is published in Nano Today. The concern ...

The extraordinary diversity of insects and fishes, the most species-rich invertebrate and vertebrate groups in the animal kingdom, is partly due to the origin of venom, a new study of their evolution ...

In the past, many scientists believed that only mammals and birds could feel or think in complex ways. Reptiles, fish, and insects were seen as simple creatures that reacted purely on instinct. But ...

The catfish Silurus asotus was fed eight aquatic beetle species of varying body sizes of the families Gyrinidae, Dytiscidae and Hydrophilidae, including Regimbartia attenuata, to examine their escape ...

Among rolling vineyards in the south of France lies a farm like no other. Forget cattle and crops, this flagship project from French company Ÿnsect is home to billions of Tenebrio molitor – mealworm ...

This past Tuesday (June 11), Dutch company Protix opened the world’s largest insect farm in Bergem op Zoom, a small town in the south of the Netherlands. Founded in 2009 by Dutch ...

A new study shows that lettuce can take up nanoplastics from the soil and transfer them into the food chain. A new study from the University of Eastern Finland shows that lettuce can take up ...