Deep inside an ant nest, some of the youngest members are primed to die for the group. When infection strikes, these baby ...

For corals, baby fat is food. Coral mothers send their offspring into the world with a balanced meal of fat and algae, but baby corals mainly chew the fat, new research finds. Adult corals of the ...

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 corals find their way home in their first days as free-swimming larvae by listening to the noise of animals on the reef and actively swimming towards it, an international team of researchers ...

How do mosquito larvae catch their prey? By using their heads. In attacks that are too swift to be seen with the naked eye, predatory aquatic larvae, which measure about 0.75 inch (2 centimeters) long ...

It’s one of those horrifying facts of nature: Ant larvae eat each other. But why would a species that’s famous for self-sacrifice and cooperation also support infant cannibalism? Scientists now ...

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 ...

Growths on plants formed by parasitic weevils help their offspring hunker down on a Brazilian savanna and outlast the flames. By Gennaro Tomma Living things have long needed to find ways to survive ...