“I am studying venomous caterpillars because they are the most exciting area I’ve ever come across,” says Andrew Walker of the University of Queensland in Australia, who authored a recent ...

A house in Australia harbored more than 400 moths and butterflies, and hundreds of other species, including ones never documented before. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...

[The caterpillar’s gland] appears to have evolved ... found 60 meters underground in a mining area in Western Australia; a new mountain frog; and four new marine fish. Among the insects was ...

Scientists have discovered proteins in the caterpillars' venom that fold up ... of Queensland's Institute for Molecular Bioscience in Australia, told Live Science. "The pain is long-lasting ...

[The caterpillar’s gland] appears to have evolved just to feed and appease the ants,” said Yeates. Sign up to receive an email with the top stories from Guardian Australia every morning Sign ...

Definitely," says Andrew Walker, an evolutionary biologist and biochemist at the University of Queensland, Australia. "But there's a lot of foundational work to do first." Caterpillars are the ...

This Hawaiian caterpillar raids spiderwebs camouflaged in insect prey’s body parts, and it's not above cannibalism in a pinch. Credit: Rubinoff lab/University of Hawaii, Manoa. We think of moths ...