A human volunteer stands in a room furnished with a speaker. Sounds begin to play that are so unpleasant that the human steps back to move away. The sounds are eerie and conjure otherworldly beings, ...

When birds or insects fly, they displace air with their wings – that is how it works. Maybe sometime at night you have disturbed an owl and heard the flap of its large wings. This sound is a frequency ...

When some insects are scared or threatened by predators, they secrete smelly compounds. Scientists converted the secretions into sounds, creating an eerie melody that's unpleasant to humans. See more ...

When researchers reviewed footage of flying insects, they saw that the bugs tilted their backs toward the source of artificial light. Imperial College London Flip on a porch light on a summer evening ...

With their proportionately bulky bodies supported by puny wings, many flying insects look about as airworthy as a Mack truck. French Zoologist Antoine Magnan once studied bumblebees for several years, ...

Standing in a tropical forest at night, you might hear what sounds like a small bird calling from high in the canopy. Listen more closely, though, and that “bird” turns out to be an insect with ...