In experiments, researchers showed that the disease-spreading insects couldn’t resist the sweet smell of a fungus that infected and killed them.

Iceland recorded its first verified population of mosquitoes. The cold-tolerant species Culiseta annulata survived Iceland’s ...

The most dangerous animal in the world just got easier to study—and perhaps defeat one day. Researchers from Rockefeller ...

A mosquito larva entombed in amber for about 99 million years is now the oldest known of its kind, according to a new study. The fossil comes from Kachin in northern Myanmar and likely formed when ...

It's well known that deadly snakes strike very swiftly, and it is easy to infer that if you’re unlucky enough to be bitten, the moment of contact will be as simple as it is sudden: a lightning-quick ...