That experience proved invaluable on a Chronicle assignment involving a missing juvenile ball python at a local EaDo ...

For the first time on the Central Coast, cutting-edge monarch butterfly research is taking place right here in Goleta.

Monarch butterflies from the western United States have arrived in Santa Cruz and other parts of the California coast, ...

Legend claims a woolly bear caterpillar can predict the severity of winter — but is it true? Here's what to know about the ...

Predators in the forest understory are learning a strange new lesson: sometimes that ominous hiss in the leaf litter is not a ...

As December develops and winter’s cold returns, I find that summer has not completely loosened its hold on this dusty desert ...

The European Space Agency has released new images of a rare "butterfly" crater on the Red Planet. The bug-like structure ...

Tear-drinking, known as lachryphagy, has mostly been observed in the tropics, so scientists were somewhat surprised to find ...

Late fall and early winter are the best times of year to spot giant silk moth cocoons in New England.

Comet moths lead tragically short lives, but leave behind an incredible legacy until it's time for them to die off.

When cocoon spotting, be prepared to search for a bit to find their hidden, silken lairs wrapped in fallen leaves, attached ...