Kids love dinosaurs. I did more than 55 years ago, and so did many of my friends. We collected and played with hard plastic toy models with long, hard-to-pronounce and spell names imprinted on them.

Kids love dinosaurs. I did more than 55 years ago, and so did many of my friends. We collected and played with hard plastic toy models with long, hard-to-pronounce and spell names imprinted on them.

Since my wife brought home that spectacular eastern Hercules beetle I described a few weeks ago, I’ve embraced beetlemania. Given the sheer number of beetles that inhabit the planet, it’s ...

Taylor Piephoff, the Observer’s birding columnist, came across a winged creature so mighty it’s known as the rhinoceros of the beetle world. Piephoff photographed an eastern Hercules beetle at a Mint ...

Along the southern edge of the United States sits the state of Alabama. While it may be home to over five million people, much of the state is covered by forests (67% of the state’s total area, to be ...

The Fall Armyworm got that name because its species moves together across fields like an army. Mudpuppies have that name because of the "somewhat embellished notion that their squeaky vocalizations ...

Since my wife brought home that spectacular eastern Hercules beetle I described a few weeks ago, I’ve embraced beetlemania. Given the sheer number of beetles that inhabit the planet, it’s ...