A tiny worm turns static electricity into a powerful weapon, launching itself through the air to catch flying prey.

Golden tortoise beetles do not look like real beetles. But they do exist and are plentiful throughout North America.

A paper published last year in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface described a feather as a masterpiece of engineering ...

When people think about habitats on Earth, they likely picture forests, oceans or grasslands. Few think to look up. Yet the lower atmosphere, or troposphere, may be the largest habitat on the planet.

Over the past half century, researchers have established that birds evolved from dinosaurs: specifically, the theropods, the ...

While exploring open fields, I came across two European bee-eaters resting on a branch. Their bright colors stood out ...

A Hawaii without palm trees is hard to imagine. They are part of the landscape that travelers associate with the Islands before they are on the plane — framing pink and fiery sunsets in photos, and ...

A new restaurant plans to replace the now-closed Flying Rhino Cafe on Worcester’s Shrewsbury Street. The business, Mercado Restaurant, will open “soon” at 278 Shrewsbury St., the former home of Flying ...

State officials announced the release of $8 million in Capital Improvement Funds for the reconstruction of a major part of the Lahaina Small Boat Harbor. Hawaii lawmakers plan to take up the issue of ...

WORCESTER – The Flying Rhino restaurant on Shrewsbury Street has closed for good. The owners said they are nearing a deal to sell the business. In a social media post on Thursday, June 19, the owners ...

Flying Rhino Cafe & Watering Hole, an eatery at 278 Shrewsbury St. in Worcester in operation since 2000, has closed its doors after the property was sold to the former owners of Altea’s Eatery and ...

Discover interesting facts about insects, the critters whose combined weight on the planet is 70 times that of all humans. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...