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On social media, we are introduced to so many different species that we don’t see in our everyday lives. One example is the ...

Love is in the air for the vinegar fly. Drosophila melanogaster has long been a model for understanding how brains translate sensory information into courtship behavior. Male flies perform a multitude ...

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Sterile flies tinted with a fluorescent dye are now being released in Texas as the harmful parasite inches close to the ...

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins and Governor of Texas Greg Abbott celebrated a significant achievement in the fight against New World Screwworm (NWS) with the completion of a ...

EDINBURG — The United States and Texas are fully prepared to combat a parasitic fly that poses a billion-dollar threat to the Texas economy, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said Monday.

EDINBURG, Texas (AP) — The first center for dispersing sterile screwworm flies from U.S. soil in decades opened Monday in Texas, part of a larger effort to keep the flesh-eating parasite they spawn ...

Pokémon gets much of its character design from real animals and plants in nature. With 1,025 unique Pokémon, plenty of design inspiration came straight from nature. One example is the Pokémon ...

Forrest, a Eurasian eagle owl, swoops in on a piece of mouse meat placed in an enclosure at the Point Defiance Zoo on Friday, Jan. 30, 2026, in Tacoma, Wash. (Liesbeth ...