Feb 18, 2025 by News Staff

New research reveals how hundreds of species influence Earth’s surface processes, from vast termite mounds visible from space to hippos carving drainage...

Sep 11, 2023 by Natali Anderson

Entomologists from the Universidade de São Paulo have identified a new species of the termitophilous rove beetle genus Austrospirachtha (tribe Corotocini)...

Oct 24, 2022 by Enrico de Lazaro

New research led by University of Göttingen scientists shows that grass death in fairy circles occurs immediately after rainfall due to plant water stress...

Jun 16, 2022 by News Staff

Gansuyaena megalotis, a small-bodied hyaenid that lived in what is now the Chinese province of Gansu between 15 and 12 million years ago (Miocene epoch),...

Nov 26, 2019 by News Staff

An international team of paleontologists has announced the discovery of an ancient interaction preserved in a 16-million-year-old (Miocene period) piece...

Nov 22, 2018 by News Staff

An international team of entomologists has found that numerous termite mounds in Brazil are between 690 to 3,820 years old. The termite mounds are found...

Oct 23, 2016 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new species of drywood termite has been described from tropical dry forests of Colombia’s Caribbean coast. Proneotermes macondianus. Scale bars –...

Jun 24, 2016 by Natali Anderson

An international team of paleontologists has discovered the oldest known examples of ‘fungus gardens’ within 25 million-year-old fossilized termite...

May 21, 2014 by News Staff

Genetic researchers led by Dr Jürgen Liebig of Arizona State University have sequenced the genome of the Nevada dampwood termite (Zootermopsis nevadensis). Simplified...