Fifteen years ago, celebrated Australian ecologist Robert May posed a fantastical question to the scientific community. “If some alien version of the Starship Enterprise visited Earth, what might be ...

Robert May, a famed ecologist, posed a hypothetical question to the scientific community 15 years ago - if an alien spaceship landed on Earth, one of the first questions they would likely ask would be ...

Among the approximately 16,000 new species described every year, roughly 6,000 are insects. Pictured here is a lanternfly from India. About 300 years ago, Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus set out on a ...