A baby animal’s size at birth is often relative to the size of the species itself, so when sizes are disproportionate, it can ...

The fastest punches in the animal kingdom probably belong to mantis shrimp — and they may begin unleashing these attacks a little more than a week after hatching, when they have just started to hunt ...

Robots mimic clouds of microscopic marine larvae, like baby crabs, clams and rockfish The robots help tell scientists where marine larvae go, how they get there and back, and what allows them to do it ...

Baby dragonflies grow up in a larva-eat-larva world. Up close, they look like monsters. Dragonflies might rule the skies, but their babies grow up underwater in a larva-eat-larva world. Luckily for ...

A light crackling sound floats above a field in northern Switzerland in late summer. Its source is invisible, tucked inside a dead, dried plant stem: a dozen larval mason bees striking the inner walls ...

French food giant Danone said Friday it is asking parents to alert the company if they find any worm larvae in packages of its Gallia powdered baby milk, after a couple reported that their three-month ...

Before starfish grow into their many-armed and largely stationary adult forms, they navigate the sea as miniscule larvae — measuring about 1 millimeter in length, or about the size of a grain of rice ...