So when scientists at the University of Bristol, UK, started studying a group of tropical insects belonging to the genus ...

In her debut work of nonfiction,‘Poking the Squid,’ Perrin Roosevelt Ireland, artist-in-residence at the New York Aquarium, ...

Rockstar has started taking preorders for Grand Theft Auto VI, but the game is still months away from its Nov 19 launch. In ...

Scientists have made an incredible discovery of a new species of flatworm found in jet-black egg capsules 6,200 meters under ...

Humans may be part of the animal kingdom, but there’s still so much many of us don’t know about the creatures we share the ...

Humans may be part of the animal kingdom, but there’s still so much many of us don’t know about the creatures we share the planet with. They come in all kinds of shapes and sizes, and some of their ...

Some creative calculations using bug traps, epidemiology and trees suggest there are some 20 million unique insect species on ...

Urokodia aequalis, an early Cambrian marine predator from the Chengjiang biota of China, preserves the earliest known evidence of chelicerae -- the pincer-like structures that later evolved into the ...

When people think of bats, they usually picture these creatures of the night with wide wingspans flitting through the dark sky. The bumblebee bat, however, does not fit this image at all. Also known ...

I am standing on its muddy shores, watching, with some apprehension, a 6-and-a-half-foot alligator. Its pewter eyes blend in ...

Here, the line between the natural world and the stories people tell themselves begins to blur. It’s easy to imagine how ...

Nature's most striking animals share a surprisingly common fashion statement, and their polka dots do far more than just look ...