Researchers at Texas A&M University’s Nuclear Security Science and Policy Institute have attached radiation sensors to the backs of cockroaches. They hope public-safety officials will one day send the souped-up insects into situations that are too risky for humans.

Scientists studying dolphin behavior have suggested they could be the most intelligent creatures on Earth after humans, and should therefore be treated as "non-human persons" and granted rights as individuals.

Astrophysicists in the U.S. are repurposing technology used to detect and destroy ballistic missiles to combat mosquitoes. The technology works by detecting detects the audio frequency created by the beating of mosquito wings and then zapping it with a laser beam.

A giant flower beetle with implanted electrodes and a radio receiver on its back can be wirelessly controlled, according to research by scientists at the University of California.

To the casual human listener, the love song of a humpback whale sounds magnificently free-flowing and improvised. But fresh mathematical analysis of the song shows there are complex grammatical rules. Using syntax, the whales combine sounds into phrases, which they further weave into hours-long melodies packed with information.

APOPO, a Belgian humanitarian assistance group, is training rats to detect landmines in Mozambique and Angola. The rats are light enough not to trigger the landmines and are able to sniff out landmines with a high degree of efficiency and accuracy.

Scientists at a U.S. weapons laboratory say they have trained bees to sniff out explosives in a project they say could have far-reaching applications for U.S. homeland security and the Iraq war.

The U.S. military, facing problems in its efforts to train insects or build robots that can mimic their flying abilities, now wants to develop "insect cyborgs" that can go where troops cannot. The Pentagon is seeking applications from researchers to help them develop technology that can be implanted into living insects to control their movement and transmit video or other sensory data back to their handlers.

DARPA scientists want to create an army of cyber-insects that can be remotely controlled to check out explosives and send transmissions. The idea is to insert micro-systems at the pupa stage, when the insects can integrate them into their body, so they can be remotely controlled later.

An overview of some of the U.S. Military's efforts to learn from the natural world by developing new techniques based on animal behavior, or exploit it directly by enlisting animals directly in warfighting efforts.