Touch lively hissing cockroaches and meet chilled-out tarantulas. Show off your invertebrate knowledge to our science-loving staff or learn something brand new to love about arthropods. Discover what ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The Staten Island Children’s Museum in Livingston announced its reopening on Jan. 29, kicking off a ...

Field Museum visitors see less than 1% of its total collection. So where's the rest of it? CBS News Chicago went on a tour ...

It’s not just the big-name celebrities of the skeleton—the hips and knees and shoulders—that scream at us as we accumulate ...

To assist their offspring in this endeavour, mother Cynipoidea wasps also squirt into the flies a mix of venom, viruses and ...

The trapdoor spider is one of the sneakiest hunters in the arachnid world. These clever spiders are named for their unique hunting strategy: They build burrows with hinged "doors" made of soil and ...

The sun spider is known for its great speed and powerful jaw. Oddly enough, sun spiders, which are also called wind scorpions or camel spiders, are neither spiders nor scorpions. They belong to the ...

Neurobiological emergentism” explains how sentience—the subjective feeling aspects of consciousness—developed in ancient animals that evolved the first complex neural systems.

For over half a billion years, evolution has sculpted the nervous systems of bilaterian animals, equipping them with ...

"Most scorpions are likely capable of spraying venom. They just don't do it. This extreme behavioral response is only known ...

Looking for the best things to do in Boston this weekend? Here are some family-friendly events and activities in the area to ...