Defector

This 17th-Century Flemish Painting Held A Gnarly Bat Secret

To Jan Brueghel the Elder, paradise could not be contained to a single biome. Many of Brueghel’s paintings teem with ...
Discover Wildlife

11 of the biggest animals on Earth – number 4 is absolutely massive!

From river giants to land-dwelling beasts, these are the biggest creatures walking, swimming and flying across our planet ...
Scientific American

Earth is home to 20 million insect species—three times more than we thought

Some creative calculations using bug traps, epidemiology and trees suggest there are some 20 million unique insect species on ...

We've been undercounting the insects. There may be three times as many species as we knew

A study in Costa Rica has big implications for extinction and conservation.

There may be 3 times more insect species than previously thought

A new estimate of insect species globally finds that there may be 8 million to 14 million more species than people thought, ...