Brutal, vicious, relentless—people have some choice words when talking about sand gnats! Savannahians are buzzing online ...

Knee-deep in a river of northern Thailand, scientists scooped up some sand with a net and sifted through it. Hidden between the grains, they found two “rare” creatures — and rediscovered a species not ...

If you’ve ever walked the beach and watched a tiny bird pulling something from the sand, it was likely a piping plover. These ...

Photos show these brown insects, which blend in with the surrounding sand. Behningia baei mayflies were first collected in 2002 and described as a new species in 2006, “but no other information ...