New research outlines how the savvy blue dasher lives happily in storm drains and park ponds others flee. By Cara Giaimo As humans reshape environments, we drive away many creatures. A select few ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Often mistaken for fireflies or even worms, Orfelia fultoni are actually the glowing larvae of a fungus gnat. Measuring just 1.5 ...

A blue-eyed cicada that's on exhibit at the Field Musum in Chicago. Four-year-old Jack Bailey found the bug in his yard, and his family donated it to the museum. Daniel Le, Field Museum This spring, ...

Most of the periodical cicadas emerging across the eastern U.S. in this year's rare dual emergence event have blood-red eyes, but sightings of blue-eyed variants have recently been reported. When you ...