A newly published study co-authored by University of South Florida alum Louis Coticchio and USF integrative biologist Deby Cassill challenges long-standing assumptions about the brown recluse spider, ...

Mosquitoes have been biting people for more than a million years and probably much longer. An analysis of 38 modern mosquitoes’ DNA suggests an ancestral mosquito species developed a preference for ...

A pretrial hearing for 63-year-old Danny Bruce Richards is scheduled for March 5 at the Central Justice Center in Santa Ana. Richards is a former traffic engineer for Orange County Public Works.

Not all mosquitoes are to blame, however. Every bloodsucking malaria vector comes from those within the group Anopheles leucosphyrus, which encompasses a comparatively small portion of the planet’s ...

Nile monitor lizards are dangerous, invasive predators in Florida. Here's where they are in the state and what to do if you ...

If we define scared as reacting in response to a threat, then the evidence suggests a resounding yes. I’ll say it louder for ...