You may know ladybugs for their red and black spots. But did you know the "ladybug" is actually more than one type of insect? There are about 5,000 species in the Coccinellidae, or ladybug, family.

A species of organism closely related to a brain-eating amoeba has been found in a popular dam in Western Australia, sparking an urgent warning to swimmers. Naegleria fowleri was detected in ...