Jesslyn Shields

The differences go beyond the fact that one goes in a sippy cup and the other is a main ingredient in festive holiday punches.

During the late summer months, fruit flies can become the bane of your existence. Here are some great tips for controlling and, ultimately, eradicating them from your kitchen.

Until he was found dead on Aug. 23, 2022, a solitary man with a mysterious, but certainly horrific, past went about his business, alone in the Amazonian jungle.

The largest eagle in the world has a claw the size of a grizzly bear’s, a leg the size of a human’s and a very disapproving gaze.

Machine learning, or artificial intelligence, might just save us from bacterial infections in the future.

Spider monkeys, an endangered species, are the largest monkeys in the Americas and live in the forest canopy, where they swing through the trees with the greatest of ease.

Honey has been used as medicine for millennia and, in this century, the old remedies seem to be holding up to science.

The protection of these strange looking, ancient animals, and creatures like them, may be a key component in helping a planet in climate catastrophe.

Flemish giants, also known as “Flemmies,” make great pets, but the question is, how did they get so big?

Scientists at the Natural History Museum in London described 552 species in 2021, including a couple of dinosaurs.

The most inhospitable continent in the world can be a surprisingly normal at times. But then you have to mail your poop home.

The elephant hawk moth is breathtakingly beautiful as an adult, but as a baby ... not so much.

While luna moths aren’t exactly rare, they’re hard to find so every encounter seems extra special.

Kinkajous, or honey bears, are generally docile creatures, but they definitely don’t mix well with humans.

The pigment ultramarine was as expensive as gold in medieval Europe; so how did it end up in the teeth of a nun buried at a monastery in rural Germany?

The toilet hasn’t evolved much in 400 years, but modern science is hoping to change that.

Black soldier fly larvae will eat almost anything and they taste pretty good themselves, too.

The cartoon Roadrunner beep-beeped his way through the desert, outfoxing Wile E. Coyote every time, but the real bird can run up to 27 mph and, in some Native American traditions, offers protection from evil spirits.

These berserker weasels are the ultimate cold weather survivors — cagey, smart and omnivorous.

The magic of a blacker-than-black chicken like the Ayam Cemani is in its genetics.