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Amid a wider social justice reckoning, some scientists are calling for scrapping species names that honor people considered objectionable, including dictators and enslavers, or use offensive words. Others question whether such a monumental effort is worthwhile or even possible.

The Pacific Forest of Ecuador holds a unique conflagration of ecosystems: Verdant cloud and mossy evergreen forests transition into semideciduous and dry forests closer to the coast that exist in a boom-and-bust life cycle driven by periodic rainfall. In just the last century, however, clearance for grazing and farmland nearly wiped out the Pacific Forest. […]

The tiny, “cryptic” creature has silver eyes, researchers said in a new study.

The invertebrates create elaborate structures to escape danger and shimmer in synchronized performances to confuse predators

Celebrate Thanksgiving with some of the animal kingdom’s greatest cooks, including marshmallow-roasting apes and salt-sprinkling monkeys

Nerdist, it’s bugs. Not in a Snowpiercer kind of way, though. Rather, we like them as reminders of how weird and wonderful all of Earth’s little, crawling lifeforms can be. Take, for example, this warty leaf beetle from the Amazon rainforest. It sounds like something Tolkien would toy with in his mind, and looks like… a miniature, insect version of Prince? Laughing Squid picked up on the above video, which was posted to Andreas Kay’s YouTube channel. The species in the clip, which bel...

By Emma Taggart on January 6, 2021 Insects are the most diverse group of organisms on our planet. There are around 900,000 different kinds of bugs we know of, representing around 80% of the worlds species. Late physicist, biologist, and photographer Andreas Kay dedicated his life to documenting the fascinating insect world. From 2011 until his death in 2019, Kay spent time in Ecuador, where he explored the a...