A 32-year-old man has been charged over a pursuit that ended in Perth’s Cottesloe with a citizen's arrest. An alert warning parents that some sand play products may contain asbestos was sent out days ...

A P-plater accused of causing a deadly crash that killed a pregnant woman in Sydney will remain behind bars as authorities ...

Kit Prendergast named the female bee Megachile (Hackeriapis) lucifer, a nod to her favourite Netflix show, because of the ...

The well-preserved remains of a woolly mammoth found in Siberia enabled scientists to extract RNA for the first time and ...

A devil-horned bee discovered in Western Australia sheds light on how little we still know about native pollinators. A newly ...

Scientists discover Megachile lucifer, a new Australian bee with tiny, devil-like horns that may help it dig, pack, and ...

Scientists discovered a new species of bee with "demon-like" devil horns, earning it the name "Megachile lucifer." ...

In 2019, researcher Kit Prendergast was surveying the insects visiting an incredibly rare plant in the Bremer Ranges of ...

Solitary bee species are major pollinators of wild plants, and there are over 1,500 species in the Megachile genus alone.

“I was super excited to find it,” said Kit Prendergast, a native bee scientist who discovered the insect in 2019 as she ...

“The taxonomist who describes a new species gets to name it,” Prendergast tells Jennifer Hassan at the Washington Post. After ...

Scientists have found a new native bee that they’ve dubbed the Lucifer bee. Megachile Lucifer was found by a researcher as ...