Plants and Animals

It appears the corpses of millions of dead kelp flies have been dying the bare feet of people walkin...

The first gray wolf litter since the 1940s has been sighted in Colorado following a decision to rein...

To investigate the mange-inducing mites that are killing wombats, scientists have created a robot th...

For a short period each spring, bees in certain parts of the world add a little extra ingredient to ...

The find is a globally rare one as chicken eggs, being very fragile, are hardly ever found in one pi...

Using their highly moveable pharyngeal jaws, snowflake moray eels can grab food on land and swallow ...

Megalodons were the biggest predator fish the oceans have ever seen, but our formulas for estimating...

A stunningly preserved 99 million-year-old family of snails captured in amber shows in the Cretaceou...

A herd of 15 elephants has trekked over 500km north up through China, and no one is sure why, or whe...

The worker bees are able to maintain genetic integrity within their clones for hundreds of millions ...

Sometimes natural and sexual selection push in opposite directions, and this gets even more complex ...

It might look like the bird is being eaten alive, but anting is thought to be a beneficial behavior ...

The gray snoot makes it likely that this dolphin is leucistic rather than an albino....

In a new preliminary study, scientists wanted to find out whether cannabis could really be used to e...

The observation marks just the second time humpbacks have been spotted in the southern hemisphere, a...

Scientists report that they revived Bdelloid rotifers after having been frozen in permafrost for at ...

Australia's largest known dinosaur has just been announced and it is so big members of the species a...

Florida man's grisly head injuries demonstrate the risks of fossil hunting for megalodon teeth durin...