Geologist Kirsten Oravec is in her element. "This is a walk on the Earth's mantle. These are wonderfully strange rocks," she says, marvelling at the Tablelands in Gros Morne National Park. The Earth's ...

Louisiana is turning to an alien insect to help control the spread of giant salvinia that's clogging many of the state's premier lakes and bayous. The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries ...

The insects of concern are a couple of our largest, since most people react most negatively toward big bugs: the praying ...

A combination of a warming climate and international trade and mobility have meant invasive species and threats once unheard ...

Hudson Valley homeowners have been taking pictures of a strange-looking bug that has begun to swarm in local backyards. While they look harmless, it's what they turn into that could ruin the rest of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Louisiana's sweetest crop is under attack from an Australian native insect that arrived in the United States last year. The ...

Louisiana's sweetest crop is under attack from an Australian native insect that arrived in the United States last year. The pasture mealybug, which can quickly damage or kill sugarcane, has been ...

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A copy of the game Ripley’s Hive Exterminator Pack – Includes an exclusive cosmetic outfit themed to Ellen Ripley’s appearance near the dramatic climax of 1986’s blockbuster masterpiece, Aliens. All ...

A sting from an Asian needle ant can cause anaphylaxis. The ant tends to prefer forests and wood-rich areas, has a distinctive stinger, and has a lighter reddish-brown color on the legs. Entomologist ...

Two years after a meteorite crash-landed on a New Jersey home, researchers have released findings that there was "alien world chemistry" inside it, a new study reports. The study, published in the ...