Female praying mantises are notorious for eating their mates during or after sex. Now, scientists have discovered a dwarf ...

To gasps of delight, our guide Nestor Toussaint points out the St Lucia parrot, the island’s vibrant, vocal national bird and ...

Over the last 12 months our scientists have been busy cataloguing the extraordinary diversity of life on Earth.

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The deep sea around Antarctica just got a whole lot weirder as researchers have discovered at least 30 previously unknown ...

From fruit flies that bite to a tiny mouse opossum and a feathered dinosaur preserved with the remains of its last meal, more than 70 new species were ...

The Canary Islands may represent the “missing link” in a global pandemic killing sea urchins. Sea urchins help build and maintain marine habitats in much the same way that large plant-eating animals ...

Endangered species are being sold online with UK-based firms illegally supplying seahorses, a BBC investigation finds.

The U.S. is full of lakes, but the Great Lakes get all the attention. For your next trip, check out one of the five biggest ...

Over the last 12 months, scientists from London’s Natural History Museum have been busy collecting, studying and cataloguing the extraordinary diversity of life on Earth. Museum scientists have given ...

Perhaps it was hiding from predators. Or trying to catch food. Then again, maybe it just wanted to be left alone.

Scientists have discovered that gut-born bacteria may hold the secret for treatments of everything from IBD to Parkinson’s ...